A case of a rare brain-eating amoeba has been confirmed in Florida, according to health officials in the US state. The Florida Department of Health (DOH) said one person in Hillsborough County had ...

There are several cases of brain-eating amoeba, a rare but deadly pathogen that causes a fatal brain infection called primary ...

An Indian teenager is now among a handful of people in the world to survive a rare brain-eating amoeba, partly due to his father coming across a public awareness campaign on social media.

(Retortamonadida, Protista). European Journal of Protistology 33:254–265 ... On the organization of the naked filose amoeba, Nuclearia moebiusi Frenzel, 1897 (Sarcodina, Filosea) and its implications.

This amoeba, a single-celled organism, acquires energy by engulfing nutrients in the form of a yeast cell (red). Through a process called phagocytosis, the amoeba encloses the yeast cell with its ...

With winter weather settling in, it's no surprise that people are already suffering from irritating colds and blocked noses. Struggling to breathe properly can really wipe you out, but people are ...

This could potentially expose individuals to a "brain-eating amoeba". If you also shoot the water "straight up", it provides the parasite with a direct route to its target, which could ...

Bacteria are in the majority in the gut microbiome; other significant inhabitants — archaea, viruses, protists and fungi — have been studied far less. Our project will focus on protists ...

sp. and S. terebellae Ray 1930 demonstrate niche partitioning in marine gregarine parasites (Apicomplexa). Protist 165:493-511. Heintzelman, M.B. and Enriquez, M.E. (2010) Myosin diversity in the ...

Written by a team of European experts from the marine sciences, "Navigating the Future VI" discusses how the biodiversity crisis is being played out in the Ocean. The Position Paper notes that ...

offering exciting new perspectives on the ecological and evolutionary mechanisms driving microbial symbiosis between prokaryotes and protists." This research marks a significant advance in the ...

My research examines the origin and evolutionary history of eukaryotic cells. I work with 'protists', that is, all those eukaryotes that are NOT animals, plants or fungi. Most protists are ...