Fatal 'brain-eating' amoeba successfully treated with repurposed UTI drug
When you buy through link on our site , we may bring in an affiliate commission . Here ’s how it works . A decades - old drug for urinary tract infection may also work for " brain - feeding " amoeba infections , which kill the immense majority of masses who contract them , Science magazine report . The drug ’s hope was demonstrated in a recent compositor’s case report , published in January in the journalEmerging infective Diseases , which trace a 54 - twelvemonth - old man whose brain was infiltrated by the amoebaBalamuthia mandrillaris ....