Table 1.
Balamuthia mandrillaris strains used to prepare protein extracts
| Strain | Designation | Source (age [yr]/sexa) |
Geographic origin | Reference | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human | Animal | ||||
| B.m-1 | CDC:V451 | 6/F | NY, NJ, USA | Booton et al. (2003) (1) | |
| B.m-2 | CDC:V416 | 10/F | South Brisbane, Australia | Booton et al. (2003) (1) | |
| B.m-3 | CDC:V433 | Horse (20/?) | CA, USA | Kinde et al. (1998) (10) | |
| B.m-4 | CDC:V039 | Mandrill (0.7/F) | San Diego, CA, USA | Visvesvara et al. (1990) (19) | |
| B.m-5 | CDC:V188 | 58/M | GA, USA | Visvesvara et al. (1990) (19) | |
| B.m-6 | CDC:V565 | Gibbon (?/?) | AZ, USA | Unpublished case | |
| B.m-7 | CDC:V426 | 17/M | CA, USA | Booton et al. (2003) (1) | |
| B.m-8 | CDC:V194 | 60/M | Las Vegas, NV, USA | Booton et al. (2003) (1) | |
a
F, female; M, male.