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I've just read that there's an amoeba species where many thousands can stick together and move like a slug. What it does is transport itself to a suitable site, like a plant, and then plants bacterial spores in the flesh of the plant and harvests the fruiting bodies which might be those measle spots you mentioned..
Fruiting bodies of the amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum contain bacteria and spores of amoebas. Each sorus is attached to a single slug, comprised of about 100,000 individual amoebas.