Parasites are known to infect human cells through a variety of ingenious mechanisms. Many of them have even evolved sophisticated strategies to evade a host’s immune system by avoiding it entirely.

Amoebiasis caused by Entamoeba histolytica is the second leading parasitic cause of human mortality, mainly affecting children of the developing world. Recent sequencing of the genome of E.

Entamoeba histolytica has the unusual ability to kill human cells and then wear them as a disguise to escape the immune defenses. The research, the teams said, could pave the way for new ...

Once in the small intestine, the cysts of the Entamoeba release amoebic parasites (called trophozoites). Flask-shaped ulcers are formed following epithelial cell invasion in the large intestines.

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.

Surprisingly, a team of researchers from the Kolkata-based National Institute of Cholera and Enteric Diseases (ICMR-NICED) found that not only had the amoeba pathogen — Entamoeba moshkovskii ...