A 47-year-old man presented with a one-week history of fever (temperature up to 40.4°C), abdominal pain in the right upper quadrant and mild jaundice. He had no history of diarrhea. Apart from a ...

Amebic Colitis is caused by the anaerobic parasitic amoebozoan Entameba histolytica. This bacterium infects the mucosa in the colon and accounts for 100,000 deaths annually. The parasite infects 10% ...

An existing drug powerful against Entamoeba histolytica, the parasite, which causes amebic dysentery, and liver abscesses and results in the death of more than 70,000 people worldwide per year, ...

DeBakey and Ochsner 4 analyzed 263 cases of amebiasis. They found that fever was present in 87 per cent, "liver pain" and tenderness in 89 per cent and hepatomegaly in 77 per cent of 36 patients with ...

Immunohistochemical assays for free-living amebas were applied to formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue specimens from 42 patients with clinically or pathologically suspected amebic central nervous ...

Amebiasis (Amoebiasis) is a term for disease caused by the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica that primarily infects the human bowel, but can also affect other organs (most commonly the liver).

The clinical spectrum of intestinal E. histolytica infection ranges from an asymptomatic carrier state to severe invasive disease. Asymptomatic cyst carriage occurs with E. histolytica as well as E.

Research by a collaborative group of scientists from UC San Diego School of Medicine, UC San Francisco and Wake Forest School of Medicine has led to identification of an existing drug that is ...