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. 1988 Dec;56(12):3320-1.
doi: 10.1128/iai.56.12.3320-3321.1988.

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

A Ferrante  1 , E J Bates
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Elastase in the pathogenic free-living amoebae Naegleria and Acanthamoeba spp

A Ferrante et al. Infect Immun. 1988 Dec.

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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