| potentially pathogenic free-living amoebae isolated from hospital wards with immunodeficient patients in tehran, iran. | this study investigated the occurrence of free-living amoebae (fla) in immunodeficiency wards of hospitals in tehran, iran. a total of 70 dust and biofilm samples from wards serving transplant, pediatric (malignancies), hiv, leukemia and oncology patients of five university hospitals were collected and examined for the presence of fla using culturing and molecular approaches. based on the morphology of the amoebae in plate cultures, primer sets were applied for molecular identification of acanth ... | 2011 | 21365453 |