Ugonabo J A, Gugnani H C
J Commun Dis. 1989 Jun;21(2):111-3.
The presence of free living amoebae was investigated in the nasal passages of 50 healthy children and in environmental sources in Maiduguri, Borno State of Nigeria. Three of the children yielded positive cultures of Naegleria fowleri. All the five water samples and two of the nine soil samples examined from different localities were positive for N. fowleri. The isolates proved pathogenic for laboratory mice causing a fatal meningoencephalitis. The epidemiological significance of the findings is discussed.
对尼日利亚博尔诺州迈杜古里50名健康儿童的鼻腔通道以及环境样本中的自由生活阿米巴进行了调查。其中三名儿童培养出福氏耐格里阿米巴阳性。从不同地点采集的所有五个水样和九个土壤样本中的两个均检测出福氏耐格里阿米巴阳性。分离出的菌株对实验小鼠具有致病性，可导致致命性脑膜脑炎。本文讨论了这些发现的流行病学意义。
