Isolation and morphological and molecular characterization of waterborne free-living amoebae: Evidence of potentially pathogenic Acanthamoeba and Vahlkampfiidae in Assiut, Upper Egypt

• Martina M. Nageeb,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Medical Parasitology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

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• Hanan E. M. Eldeek ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: hananhmo@yahoo.com, h.eldeek@aun.edu.eg

  Affiliation Medical Parasitology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4369-632X

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• Rasha A. H. Attia,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Parasitology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

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• Atef A. Sakla,

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Medical Parasitology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

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• Samia S. Alkhalil,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Shaqra University, Shaqra, Saudi Arabia

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• Haiam Mohamed Mahmoud Farrag

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Medical Parasitology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt, Department of Clinical Laboratory Sciences, Faculty of Applied Medical Sciences, Shaqra University, Shaqra, Saudi Arabia

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