Entamoeba Histolytica

Most people who collect vinyl wear scrotum-crushing tight jeans.

If you're from California, and like the music and independent scene, and are more often than not annoyingly pretentious, you've probably been to the Amoeba Music record store. The one in Hollywood is a bit of a dump, and I'm still bitter that I stood there futilely waiting to see a free Franz Ferdinand gig.

Anyway, onto real amoebas. Entamoeba histolytica is the type amoeba you want to get if you're interested in a getting dysentery (compare that to Entamoeba dispar which doesn't cause dysentery). Sometimes they might affect the liver, creating an abscess, which on aspiration supposedly looks like "anchovy paste". Their virulence factors lyse WBCs, so if you're digging around in the stool and place it under a microscope, you won't find white blood cells hanging around!