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.

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 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 ...

Entamoeba histolytica can exist in two forms – as a short-lived motile trophozoite with the ability to invade different organ systems, and as a long-surviving cyst that is able to colonize a ...

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects approximately 50 million people each year, causing nearly 70,000 deaths. In most cases, this shape-shifting amoeba causes only mild ...

McAuley, JB, Herwaldt, BL, Stokes, SL, et al. Diloxanide furoate for treating asymptomatic Entamoeba histolytica cyst passers: 14 years' experience in the United States. Clin Infect Dis 1992;15: ...

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.

Leptin is an adipocytokine that links nutrition to immunity. Previous observation that a genetic polymorphism in the leptin receptor affected susceptibility to Entamoeba histolytica infection led ...

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 ...

E. histolytica has also been shown to express chromatin remodeling machinery required for nuclear transcription, including histone acetyltransferases and deacetylases. [] A genome-wide screen for ...