This photograph and CIL:24571 show the extent of some amebae in a cell culture at lower magnification. In the movie (CIL:20153) an amoeba, Balamuthia mandrillaris, within a culture of feeder cells is ...

Balamuthia mandrillaris was isolated from a sample of soil from a plant in the home of a child who died of amebic encephalitis. These free living amoebae can be opportunistic pathogens, and in some ...

This is the original movie of a Balamuthia mandrillaris ameba within a culture of monkey kidney cells in the background. The comparatively thick body of the ameba has a number of pseudopodia extending...

A large rounded monkey kidney cell is being penetrated by a pseudopodium followed by the whole Balamuthia ameba. Detection of the ameba within, rather than on, or beneath the cell is indicated by the ...