“Entamoeba histolytica is a protozoan parasite that infects humans and causes the disease amebiasis. The spectrum of intestinal amebiasis varies from colonization without symptoms to fulminating diarrhea and intestinal hemorrhage... The host-parasite interaction in human amebiasis is very complicated, and different aspects of innate immunity of the human host against the parasite still are unknown.”
When you get your lab results back and your mom is a microbiologist who informs you that you have her favorite type of parasite and you both begin an investigation as to why locals don’t get sick like the extranjeros
SO to you and dad for diagnosing/counseling my gastrointestinal distress