E. histolytica cysts are resistant to chlorine and can remain stable in the environment for weeks to months, making it a formidable food and waterborne infection. Lauren Bricker Jeff Brock.

The pathogenesis of a potentially fatal amoeba, Entamoeba histolytica (E. histolytica), has been discovered, showing that the organism uses a process coined as trogocytosis, to nibble sections of a ...

E. histolytica was taking bites out of human cells. Looking through the microscope, “You could see little parts of the human cell being broken off,” she said.The ingested cell fragments ...

E. histolytica is remarkable in exhibiting two different facets of its life in the gut. On one hand, amoebic trophozoites can remain as a commensal without causing any intestinal pathology, which ...

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this wily, shape-shifting amoeba causes nothing worse than diarrhea.

The clinical spectrum of intestinal E. histolytica infection ranges from an asymptomatic carrier state to severe invasive disease. Asymptomatic cyst carriage occurs with E. histolytica as well as ...

Back then, people believed that it killed cells by injecting them with a poison. But as she watched it through a microscope, she saw something very different. E. histolytica was actually taking bites ...

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects 50 million people each year, killing nearly 70,000. Usually, this wily, shape-shifting amoeba causes nothing worse than diarrhea. But sometimes ...

Thirty-four subjects (13 men with a mean [±SD] age of 37.6±11.2 years and 21 women with a mean age of 36.8±10.5 years) were randomly assigned to receive paromomycin, and 37 subjects (18 men ...

Next-generation drugs against the sometimes fatal disease amebiasis could result from a RIKEN researcher’s new strategy targeting a source of iron that an infectious protozoan parasite needs to ...

Back in 2011, during her postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Virginia, Ralston observed the parasite under a microscope and found that it was actually taking bites out of human cells.