Lukas VFN 🇪🇺<p>In the Company of Bacteria: Amoebae <a href="https://schaechter.asmblog.org/schaechter/2022/10/in-the-company-of-bacteria-amoebae.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">schaechter.asmblog.org/schaech</span><span class="invisible">ter/2022/10/in-the-company-of-bacteria-amoebae.html</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Biology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Biology</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Microbiology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microbiology</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Microbes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Microbes</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/SciComm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SciComm</span></a> </p><p>At least 35 bacterial species are known for non‑predatory interactions with <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/Acanthamoeba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Acanthamoeba</span></a> <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/protists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>protists</span></a>. These <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/bacteria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bacteria</span></a> do not simply serve the <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/amoebae" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>amoebae</span></a> as food but have been found either as intracellular commensals, or as mutualists, or as <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/pathogens" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pathogens</span></a>. Medical <a href="https://scholar.social/tags/microbiologists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>microbiologists</span></a> will spot some of the usual suspects in the list.</p>