NewsDesk @bactiman63 This morning, officials at AdventHealth in Florida held a Facebook Live News Briefing to announce the development of a new laboratory test to more quickly detect infections caused...

NewsDesk  @infectiousdiseasenews In a new case report published in BMC Infectious Diseases, the authors describe the case of a 54-year-old male from Southern China who survived a Balamuthia mandrillaris...

Balamuthia mandrillarisis a free-living ameba that can cause a serious encephalitis infection of the brain. It is thought to enter the body when soil containing Balamuthia comes in contact with skin...

Balamuthia mandrillaris is a free-living ameba that causes rare, nearly always fatal disease in humans and animals worldwide. B. mandrillaris has been isolated from soil, dust, and water. Initial entry...

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Orlando-based specialty pharmaceutical company, Profounda announced it has received the US Food and Drug Administration’s Orphan Drug Designation for the use of Impavido (miltefosine) to treat Granulomatous...

When you think of the infectious risks associated with improper use of contact lenses, the free-living amoeba Acanthamoeba typically comes to mind. However, newly published research in the journal Parasitology...