What is it about?
Free-living amoebae (FLA) have worldwide distribution, they are unicellular organisms that living in such diverse habitats as marine water and freshwater, soil, air and man-made environments. FLA serve as reservoir, vector, genetic "melting pot", “training ground” for resistance and as "Trojan horse" for unicellular bacteria. FLA still discovered in new places, therefore, it is important to investigate relationships between FLA and bacteria.
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Why is it important?
This review shows that FLA and bacteria interaction could affect the public health in any country. Therefore, it is important to perform new studies on FLA relationships between pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria in Latvia.
Perspectives
This article confirms that FLA-bacteria interaction may promote opportunistic bacteria's population increase.
Ilze Rubenina
Daugavpils University
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This page is a summary of: Relationships between Free-Living Amoeba and their Intracellular Bacteria, Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences Section B Natural Exact and Applied Sciences, January 2017, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/prolas-2017-0044.
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