ATCC® Number:30463™
Organism: Naegleria fowleri Carter
Designations: ORAM
Isolation: human, Mount Morgan, Australia, 1971
Depositors: JA Jamieson
History: ATCC<<--JA Jamieson<<--T. Lynch
Biosafety Level:2
Shipped: frozen
Growth Conditions: ATCCmedium 1034: Modified PYNFH medium (Available from ATCCas ATCCcat. no. 327-X)Temperature: 35.0°C Duration: axenic
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Comments: DNA fingerprinting [21765] Interrepeat PCR [23881]
References: 5090: Anderson K, Jamieson A. Agglutination test for the investigation of the genus Naegleria. Pathology 4: 273-278, 1972. PubMed: 4641057 21765: van Belkum A. DNA fingerprinting of medically important microorganisms by use of PCR. Clin. Microbiol. Rev. 7: 174-184, 1994. PubMed: 8055466 23738: Lastovica AJ. Microfilaments in Naegleria fowleri amoebae. Z. Parasitenkd. 50: 245-250, 1976. PubMed: 1033644 23881: van Belkum A, et al. Genotyping Naegleria spp. and Naegleria Fowleri isolates by Interepeat Polymerase Chain reaction. J. Clin. Microbiol. 30: 2595-2598, 1992. PubMed: 1400959
