His doctor said that the amoeba - called Naegleria fowleri - likely entered his body from the water that had been contaminated by it. Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis (PAM), the disease caused ...

Amoeba are single-celled organisms known to cause parasitic infections in humans, including skin and eye diseases as well as ...

Dennis Conrad, a pediatrics infectious disease specialist, had ever seen throughout the entirety of his career. The other two ...

The amoeba cannot be passed from person to person ... those symptoms to "seek medical attention right away, as the disease progresses rapidly". "Remember, this disease is rare and effective ...

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 ...