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 ...

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 ...

A liver abscess is a localised collection of pus in the liver, often caused by infection. It can develop following injury to the liver or due to infections spreading through the bloodstream, ...

For the first time, researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin have shown that a unicellular parasite commonly found in the mouth plays a role in both severe tissue inflammation and tissue ...

AHS says there are now 26 probable cases of E. coli and nine cases of Entamoeba histolytica infection have been identified. Instances of norovirus and rotavirus have now also been identified. AHS has ...