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Experimental Infection of Sheep with Naegleria fowleri of Human Origin^*

A strain of Naegleria fowleri, isolated from a child who died of primary amebic meningoencephalitis in Florida, was instilled in the nostrils of a sheep to determine whether livestock are susceptible to infection with free-living amebae. The animal died 7 days later from amebic infection of the central nervous system. N. fowleri were recovered from the brain and spinal cord of the animal. A control, saline-instilled sheep that had been pair-caged with the infected animal remained helathy.

Accepted for publication November 17, 1979.

^* This research was supported by funds from the Medical Research Service of the Veterns Administration. Florida Experiment Stations Journal Series No. 1719.

Address reprint requests to: Dr. Martin D. Young, College of Veterinary Medicine, Box J-136, JHMHC, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32610.