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Balamuthia mandrillaris

Balamuthia mandrillaris is a free-living amoeba that causes the rare but deadly neurological condition granulomatous amoebic encephalitis. B. mandrillaris is a soil-dwelling amoeba and was first discovered in 1986 in the brain of a mandrill that... Wikipedia
Class: Discosea
Family: Balamuthiidae
Genus: Balamuthia; Visvesvara et al., 1993
Phylum: Amoebozoa
Species: B. mandrillaris