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 ...

Entamoeba histolytica (green) attacking human T cells. A new paper by UC Davis researchers lays out a strategy for investigating how this parasite can hide from the human immune system while attacking ...

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Entamoeba histolytica infects nearly 50 million people each year and kills around 70,000. It’s a shape-shifting parasite that invades the human gut, often causing mild symptoms like diarrhea. But in ...

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 ...

Sneaky parasite evades the human immune system by stripping cells and wearing them as a disguise Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms. Many of them have ...

There’s a sinister health threat we’re not taking seriously enough, a new paper argues – and it’s not a virus, bacterium, nor even a fungus. It’s the amoebae, free-living organisms that can survive ...

An amoeba parasite that causes potentially fatal dysentery in poor countries wreaks its havoc by eating intestinal cells alive, scientists reported on Wednesday. Called Entamoeba histolytica, the ...

Every year, about 500 million people worldwide are infected with the parasite that causes dysentery, a global medical burden that among infectious diseases is second only to malaria. In a new study ...

Entamoeba histolytica (green) attacking human T-cells. A new paper by UC Davis researchers lays out a strategy for investigating how this parasite can hide from the human immune system while attacking ...