sequenced the amoeba’s genome for the first time. Their insights may help us understand what makes it so virulent and point the way to better treatments. Until then, hold your nose.

The amoeba—about the tenth of a size of a dust mite—infects 50 million people worldwide and kills as many as 100,000 each year. But new research has revealed why it’s so deadly: it eats the ...

What Happens When an Amoeba 'Eats' a Brain? Roni Jacobson Scientific American July 19, 2014 The Associated Press. Last week, nine-year-old Hally Yust died after contracting a rare brain-eating amoeba ...

A man died after he was infected by the amoeba, whose scientific name is Naegleria fowleri, the Georgia Department of Public Health said Friday. Earlier this month, Nevada public health officials ...

Amoeba Eats Cells Alive, Spits out Corpses. The single-celled parasite responsible is called Entamoeba histolytica, and its infection results in lots of tissue destruction, causing intestinal ...

A Parasite in Disguise. Scientists used to think that E. histolytica harmed people by injecting toxins into cells. But in 2011, Ralston began to suspect otherwise. Watching the amoeba through a ...

But the amoeba mainly eats bacteria, not brains, and those organisms are plentiful in the sediment of lakes and rivers. Infections in humans are devastating but rare.

The vampyrellid amoeba Strigomyxa ruptor gen. et sp. nov. and its remarkable strategy to acquire algal cell contents. Ecology and Evolution . Vol. 14, August 2024, e70191. doi: 10.1002/ece3.70191.

A Texas woman died after contracting Naegleria fowleri, a fatal brain amoeba, from using unboiled tap water in a nasal irrigation device at a campground, prompting CDC warnings.

A Texas woman died after contracting a brain-eating amoeba from tap water used to clear out her sinuses.. The 71-year-old, who was not identified, fell ill within four days of using a nasal ...