isolation of the etiological agent of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis from artifically heated waters. | to determine whether artificial heating of water by power plant discharges facilitates proliferation of the pathogenic free-living amoebae that cause primary amoebic meningoencephalitis, water samples (250 ml) were taken from discharges within 3,000 feet (ca. 914.4 m) of power plants and were processed for amoeba culture. pathogenic naegleria fowleri grew out of water samples from two of five lakes and rivers in florida and from one of eight man-made lakes in texas. pathogenic n. fowleri did not ... | 1977 | 596872 |