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For the first time three strains of the newly described species of pathogenic Naegleria,N. australiensis De Jonckheere 1981 were isolated from a thermally polluted canal in Western Germany. They were pathogenic for mice with a lower mortality and a longer incubation period compared to mice infected withN. fowleri (Carter 1970). By the immunofluorescence-method these strains could be identified asN. australiensis.
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Wir danken Herrn F.-E. Thofern (Bonn, Hygiene-Institut) für seine Hilfe bei der Gewinnung der Schlamm- und Wasserproben
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Michel, R., De Jonckheere, J. Erster Nachweis einer pathogenenNaegleria-Art (N. australiensis De Jonckheere 1981) in Deutschland. Z. Parasitenkd. 69, 395–396 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00927882
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