Also called amoebae, it is a protozoan or unicellular protist and because of this characteristic it allows it to move and change shape through amoeboid movement based on pseudopods or tentacles, or as it is also known false feet, which allows it to capture food through the process known as phagocytosis. It feeds on all kinds of microscopic plants and animals and bacteria. Its morphology is like that of a eukaryotic cell. These parasites divide in two and thus reproduce every minute and communicate through the cell membrane with the exterior that surrounds it.
This rhizopod protozoan lacks a cuticle and emits pseudopods incapable of anastomosing with each other. Numerous species are known, of which some are parasites of animals, others live in fresh or marine waters and some in humid land. The reproduction of this protozoan occurs asexually by binary fission. The name of the genus, Up Amoeba, is used from time to time freely for the nouns amoeba and amoeba, an infection that would be the same as amoebiasis produced by amoebae, usually Entamoeba Histolytica. Amoebic dysentery or amoebic liver abscess (by dissemination from the intestine. This parasite causes diarrhea in the body, lesions in the colon and liver, until sometimes it has ended the life of the infected human being.
The disease caused by this parasite is one of the causes of numerous deaths in the world and as an infectious disease it is among the top 10 causes of diarrhea worldwide. This disease can be acquired by consuming water or food contaminated by this parasite and from person to person infected.
