Volume : X, Issue : IV, April - 2020

OCCURRENCE OF NAEGLERIA AND ACANTHAMOEBA IN SURFACE WATER (GOMTI RIVER) SAMPLES FROM LUCKNOW CITY

Newton Paul, Tabrez Ahmad

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Water is a basic need of human for multiple requirements like, drinking, washing, bathing, swimming, cooking and is used for various other purposes such as energy production, industrial operation, navigation, agriculture, aquaculture etc. The microbial pathogens present in water may be either of faecal or non–faecal origin. Among the organism of non–faecal origin certain protozoa cause serious human health disorders after the consumption of contamination water by both human and domestic animal. Amphizoic amoebae are the most common ubiquitous protozoan organisms occurring in almost every natural and artificial body of water and are known to cause fatal diseases in human being and domestic animals. Free–living amoebae (FLA) are belonging to genera Naegleria and Acanthamoeba which as opportunistic pathogen causes fatal human disease affecting central nervous system and eye. These amoebae cause fatal Primary Amoebic Encephalitis (PAM), Granulomatous Amoebic Encephalitis (GAE) and Amoebic Keratitis in human being. In Lucknow, large number of human population living near or around of rivers and uses such water for daily uses and they are at high risk for infection

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OCCURRENCE OF NAEGLERIA AND ACANTHAMOEBA IN SURFACE WATER (GOMTI RIVER) SAMPLES FROM LUCKNOW CITY, Newton Paul, Tabrez Ahmad INDIAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED RESEARCH : Volume-10 | Issue-4 | April-2020

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