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Elastase in the pathogenic free-living amoebae Naegleria and Acanthamoeba spp.

A Ferrante1, E J Bates.   

Abstract

The data showed that pathogenic free-living amoebae contain the proteolytic enzyme elastase. The levels of enzyme were similar in Naegleria fowleri, N. australianis italica, and Acanthamoeba culbertsoni A-1. No difference was found between elastase levels in a highly pathogenic N. fowleri and those in the same organism which had lost pathogenicity as a result of long-term axenic maintenance.

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Year:  1988        PMID： 3182083      PMCID： PMC259744          DOI： 10.1128/iai.56.12.3320-3321.1988

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Infect Immun        ISSN： 0019-9567            Impact factor:   3.441


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