The Journal of Infectious Diseases, Vol. 176, No. 6 (Dec., 1997), pp. 1597-1602 (6 pages) Active migration of Entamoeba histolytica trophozoites through extracellular matrixes might play a role in ...
The ameba Entamoeba histolytica is among the deadliest parasites in the world, infecting more than 50 million people and killing upward of 100,000 annually, according to the World Health Organization.
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 ...