ameba

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City officials said the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed the presence of the ameba in water samples from the Don Misenhimer Park splash pad on Friday.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2021

People are infected when water containing the ameba enters the body through the nose, usually when people go swimming or diving in lakes and rivers.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2021

Partially inflated at the Roswell, N.M., launch site, it looks like an ameba dressed in haute couture.

From Slate • Mar. 26, 2014

The bacillus strikes the bowels more quickly and feverishly than does the ameba.

From Time Magazine Archive

But in the case of a close relative of the ameba, the one-celled animal known as the paramecium, union with another paramecium, true conjugation, has been proved necessary to prevent death sooner or later.

From The Glands Regulating Personality by Berman, Louis, M.D.