Presence of potential pathogenic genotypes of free-living amoebae isolated from sandboxes in children's playgrounds

Title:

Presence of potential pathogenic genotypes of free-living amoebae isolated from sandboxes in children's playgrounds

Creator:

Cholewiński, Marcin, Solarczyk, Piotr, Derda, Monika, Wojtkowiak-Giera, Agnieszka, and Hadaś, Edward

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:c042459d-11c7-439b-a472-778fd29752ce
uuid:c042459d-11c7-439b-a472-778fd29752ce
issn:1803-6465
doi:10.14411/fp.2015.064

Subject:

genotyp, parazitické organismy, genotype, parasitic organisms, genotyping, Acanthamoeba, parasites, molecular study, 2, and 59

Type:

model:article and TEXT

Format:

print, počítač, and online zdroj

Description:

Some free-living amoebae are a potential threat to human health. The best known species are those of the genus Acanthamoeba Volkonsky, 1931, which cause Acanthamoeba keratitis, granulomatous amoebic encephalitis and other forms of tissue inflammation. The aim of the present study was to search for potential pathogenic genotypes of free-living amoeba in the sand in children's playgrounds. Our results confirmed that free-living amoebae were present in all examined playgrounds. Sequences of the 18S rDNA have shown that all isolated potentially pathogenic strains of amoebae belong to genotype T4 of Acanthamoeba. The potential pathogenicity of isolates was confirmed on mice. The presence of pathogenic amoebae in the examined sand may be a potential source of human infection., Marcin Cholewiński, Piotr Solarczyk, Monika Derda, Agnieszka Wojtkowiak-Giera, Edward Hadaś., and Obsahuje bibliografii

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/
policy:public

Coverage:

1-5

Source:

Folia parasitologica | 2015 Volume:62 | Number:1

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