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Until recently, the amoebas had not been recovered from the environment and their free-living status was in question. The recovery of a<jats:italic>Balamuthia<\/jats:italic>amoeba from a soil sample taken from a plant at the home of a child from California, USA, who died of<jats:italic>Balamuthia<\/jats:italic>amoebic encephalitis, was reported previously. In a continued investigation, a second amoeba was isolated from soil that was obtained from an outdoor potted plant in a spatially unrelated location. A comparison of these two environmental amoebas that were isolated from different soils with the amoeba that was obtained from the child's clinical specimen is reported here. Included are the isolation procedure for the amoebas, their growth requirements, their immunological response to anti-<jats:italic>Balamuthia<\/jats:italic>serum, their sensitivity to a selection of antimicrobials and sequence analysis of their 16S rRNA gene. 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