Balamuthia mandrillaris
"Balamuthia mandrillaris" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A species of free-living soil amoeba in the family Balamuthiidae, causing AMEBIASIS and a deadly form of ENCEPHALITIS in humans.
| Descriptor ID |
D059611
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.046.090
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| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Balamuthia mandrillaris" by people in Profiles.
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Greninger AL, Messacar K, Dunnebacke T, Naccache SN, Federman S, Bouquet J, Mirsky D, Nomura Y, Yagi S, Glaser C, Vollmer M, Press CA, Kleinschmidt-DeMasters BK, Klenschmidt-DeMasters BK, Dominguez SR, Chiu CY. Clinical metagenomic identification of Balamuthia mandrillaris encephalitis and assembly of the draft genome: the continuing case for reference genome sequencing. Genome Med. 2015 Dec 01; 7:113.