Herman, Emily K.; Greninger, Alex; van der Giezen, Mark; Ginger, Michael L.; Ramirez-Macias, Inmaculada; Miller, Haylea C.; Morgan, Matthew J.; Tsaousis, Anastasios D.; Velle, Katrina; Vargova, Romana; Zahonova, Kristina; Najle, Sebastian Rodrigo; MacIntyre, Georgina; Muller, Norbert; Wittwer, Mattias; Zysset-Burri, Denise C.; Elias, Marek; Slamovits, Claudio H.; Weirauch, Matthew T.; Fritz-Laylin, Lilian; Marciano-Cabral, Francine; Puzon, Geoffrey J.; Walsh, Tom; Chiu, Charles; Dacks, Joel B. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2021)
Background
The opportunistic pathogen Naegleria fowleri establishes infection in the human brain, killing almost invariably within 2 weeks. The amoeba performs piece-meal ingestion, or trogocytosis, of brain material ...