Eating the brain - A multidisciplinary study provides new insights into the mechanisms underlying the cytopathogenicity of Naegleria fowleri

• Ronald Malych,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, BIOCEV, Vestec, Czech Republic

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• Filipe Folgosa,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Oeiras, Portugal

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• Jana Pilátová,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Physics, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Molecular foundry, Berkeley, California, United States of America, Intitute of Parasitology, Biology Centre, Czech Academy of Science, České Budějovice, Czech Republic

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• Libor Mikeš,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

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• Vít Dohnálek,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, BIOCEV, Vestec, Czech Republic

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• Jan Mach,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, BIOCEV, Vestec, Czech Republic

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• Magdaléna Matějková,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, BIOCEV, Vestec, Czech Republic

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• Vladimír Kopecký,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Institute of Physics, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic

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• Pavel Doležal,

  Roles Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, BIOCEV, Vestec, Czech Republic

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• Robert Sutak

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: sutak@natur.cuni.cz

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, BIOCEV, Vestec, Czech Republic

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5588-1683

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