Sappinia diploidea - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

Sappinia diploidea is a free-living amoeba

Amoeboid

Amoeboids are single-celled life-forms characterized by an irregular shape."Amoeboid" and "amœba" are often used interchangeably even by biologists, and especially refer to a creature moving by using pseudopodia. Most references to "amoebas" or "amoebae" are to amoeboids in general rather than to...

species.

Clinical significance

It is capable of causing infectious disease in humans

Specifically, it can cause amebic encephalitis

Amebic encephalitis

Amebic encephalitis can refer to:* Primary amoebic meningoencephalitis* Granulomatous amoebic encephalitis...

External links

http://starcentral.mbl.edu/mv/portal.php?pagetitle=classification&BLOCKID=9&CHILDID=13432
http://www.uniprot.org/taxonomy/343529

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