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Balamuthia mandrillaris

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Free-living amoeba, which is found in fresh water ponds and in soil. This species, which is the only one of this genus that parasitizes in humans, leads to a so-called granulomatic amoebic encephalitis (GAE). Its life cycle runs like that of Acanthamoeba castellanii .

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Mehlhorn, H. (2015). Balamuthia mandrillaris . In: Mehlhorn, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Parasitology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27769-6_3720-1

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