Amoebiasis

Amoebiasis is a disease caused by a one-celled parasite called Entamoeba histolytica : Most of the infected people are healthy carriers. It means that they do not have symptoms of the infection.

Manifestation: Nearly about one in 10 people who are infected with E. histolytica become sick. The symptoms often are quite mild and can include loose stools, stomach pain, and stomach cramping. Amoebic dysentery is a severe form of amoebiasis associated with stomach pain, bloody stools, and fever. Rarely, E. histolytica invades the liver and forms an abscess. Even less commonly, it spreads to other parts of the body, such as the lungs or brain.

Occurrence: The infection occurs worldwide. In developing countries with poor sanitary conditions nearly 50% of the people are infected. The occurrence of disease with abscesses is limited to infections in:

Mexico
South-America, western part
South Asia
Western and south-western Africa

Transmission: Infection is spread from person to person in case of poor sanitary conditions.

Diagnose and treatment: Diagnose is done by demonstrating amoebae in stools. Treatment is possible with good results.

Prevent amoebiasis by:

Don’t put anything into your mouth that has touched the stool of a person who is infected with E. histolytica.

Don’t swallow something, such as water or food that is contaminated with E. histolytica.

Don’t touch and bring to your mouth cysts (eggs) picked up from surfaces that are contaminated with E. histolytica.

Avoid sexual practices that allow faecal-oral contact.

Amoebiasis Resource:

Visceral Larva Migrans Presenting with Hypereosinophilia.

Turkiye Parazitol Derg

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Dalton Trans

Localization of phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate to lipid rafts and uroids in the human protozoan parasite, Entamoeba histolytica.

Infect Immun

Discovery of Entamoeba histolytica hexokinase 1 inhibitors through homology modeling and virtual screening.

J Enzyme Inhib Med Chem

A Retrospective Study of Disease in Elasmobranchs.

Vet Pathol

G protein signaling in the parasite Entamoeba histolytica.

Exp Mol Med

Evaluation of Entamoeba histolytica recombinant phosphoglucomutase protein for serodiagnosis of amoebic liver abscess.

BMC Infect Dis

[Digestive parasitosis: giardiasis taeniasis, ascariasis, enterobiasis, amoebiasis, hydatidosis].

Rev Prat

Evaluation of the diagnostic efficacy of Fasciola adult worm vomit for serodiagnosis of human fasciolosis.

Parasitol Res

Cysteine Protease-Binding Protein Family 6 Mediates the Trafficking of Amylases to Phagosomes in the Enteric Protozoan Entamoeba histolytica.

Infect Immun

An unusual cause of encephalitis.

Adv NPs PAs

False-negative serologies in amebic liver abscess: report of two cases.

J Travel Med

[Laboratory diagnosis of Blastocystis spp].

Med Parazitol (Mosk)

[DNA diagnosis of blastocystis infection by PCR].

Med Parazitol (Mosk)

[Tourism, imported parasitic diseases, and their prevention].

Med Parazitol (Mosk)

Conventional microscopy versus molecular and immunological methods in the diagnosis of amoebiasis.

Ann Med Health Sci Res

Quality evaluation of ayurvedic crude drug daruharidra, its allied species, and commercial samples from herbal drug markets of India.

Evid Based Complement Alternat Med

Effect of the Leptin Receptor Q223R Polymorphism on the Host Transcriptome following Infection with Entamoeba histolytica.

Infect Immun

Histopathologic study of the rectum in 1,438 consecutive rectal specimens in a single Japanese hospital: I. benign lesions.

Int J Clin Exp Pathol

Cutaneous amebiasis: 50 years of experience.

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