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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 decreases the host CMI response by upregulating IL-10. Parasite-derived prostaglandin E 2 and monocyte locomotion inhibitory factor could suppress the host's immune system.

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 ...

The mechanisms whereby certain mouse strains develop persistent intestinal infection with Entamoeba histolytica remain unclear. In this work, we characterized the kinetic pattern of cytokine ...

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 ...