The rare but fatal infection is caused by the free-living amoeba species Naegleria fowleri which are found in fresh-water sources like ponds and lakes. The amoeba enters the human system through ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Although some lineages or clades are entirely unicellular or multicellular (e.g., lobose amoeba and the land plants ... lineages are dominated by unicellular species (e.g., prasinophytes in ...