AMOEBA
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- most invasive amoeba
- is the size of 8-22 um
- sausage/ciger shaped chromitoidal bars
- finger-like pseudopodia
- 10-35 um
- broom stick, needle like chromotoidal bar
- sluggish/non progressive movement
- 5-12 um in size
- previously known as "small race"
- similar to e. histolytica
- morphologically identical to e. histolytica
- uninucleated (perikaryosomal nucleus)
- "basket of flowers" in shape with large glycogen body
- colorless but deep brown when stained
- 9-14 um trophozoite but also ranges in 6-20 um
- no peripheral chromatin granules on the nuclear membrane
- smallest intestinal protozoan
- both its trophozoite and cyst have large blot-like karyosomal chromatin
- round to oval cyst with 4 nuclei
- "cross-eyed" cyst
- comma shaped chromotoidal bodies
- has pigs and monkeys as its host
- found in papua new guinea
- angular with pointed ends as chromotoidal bars
- sluggish, non-progress in normal stool but progressive, directional in diarrhea stools
- identified by sputum and in pulmonary abscesses
- MOT of entamoeba gingivalis
- first amoeba found in a human specimen
- brain eating amoeba
- causes primary amoebic meningoencephalitis
- causes keratitis
- has spiny hyaline extension
- classified as a yeast "stramenophiles"
- inhibits the lower intestinal tract
- causes granulomatous amoebic meningoencephalitis