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The microbiology laboratory astatine the Government Medical College Hospital, Kozhikode, has been equipped with facilities to behaviour PCR tests to cheque the beingness of Naegleria fowleri, Acanthamoeba spp., and Balamuthia mandrillaris, the free-living amoebae causing the deadly amoebic meningoencephalitis.
The microbiology laboratory utilized to behaviour lone microscopic tests to cheque their beingness successful the cerebrospinal fluid samples collected from patients. Treatment utilized to get started adjacent earlier identifying the peculiar taxon of amoeba. The samples past had to beryllium sent either to the State Public Health Laboratory astatine Thiruvananthapuram oregon the Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, Punjab, for confirmatory tests. This, however, was a time-consuming process. Now, these tests to corroborate the beingness of the amoeba and taxon recognition tin beryllium conducted present itself.
