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A case of amebic colitis: A potentially fatal mimicker of inflammatory bowel disease. [PDF]

JPGN Rep
ABSTRACT Amebiasis, caused by Entamoeba histolytica, can present diagnostic challenges due to its diverse clinical manifestations and potential for misdiagnosis, particularly in regions with low incidence rates. We report a case of a 9‐year‐old girl initially diagnosed with inflammatory bowel disease but later confirmed to have amebic colitis.
Ateeqi FA, Shaikhkhalil AK, Nowshad N.
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Amoebic Liver Abscesses in Returning Travelers: Lessons to Keep in Mind From a Nonendemic Area. [PDF]

Case Rep Infect Dis
Despite being relatively common in endemic settings, amoebic liver abscesses are rarely diagnosed in high‐resource countries, where they are usually imported by migrants or travelers to endemic areas. Between 2010 and 2024, we observed two cases of amoebic liver abscess that were successfully managed in a tertiary‐care center in Italy.
Barbiero A, Trevisan S, Manciulli T, Mencarini J, Cavallo A, Fiorelli C, Bartoloni A, Spinicci M, Zammarchi L.   +8 more
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Management of a Pregnant Woman With Malaria, Stillbirth, and a 12 × 11-cm Amoebic Liver Abscess in a Burundian Hospital: A Case Report. [PDF]

Case Rep Obstet Gynecol
Background: Malaria and amoebic infections are considered risk factors for stillbirth and preterm labor, but their coexistence during pregnancy has not been previously reported. Case: We describe the first case of averted maternal mortality with fetal death in utero at 22 weeks’ gestation, complicated by both falciparum malaria and hepatic amoebic ...
Castaldi MA, Castaldi SG.
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Chemical Characterization of Corydalis chaerophylla D.C. Extracts and Preliminary Evaluation of Their in Vitro and in Vivo Biological Properties

Chemistry &Biodiversity, Volume 20, Issue 12, December 2023., 2023
Abstract Genus Corydalis is a rich source of isoquinoline alkaloids reported to having potential bioactivities. Corydalis chaerophylla collected from Nepal at an altitude of 2400–4800 m was extracted using hexane, methanol and chloroform as solvents. The resulting hexane, methanol and chloroform extracts were subjected to LC–DAD‐MSn analysis to yield ...
Binita Maharjan, Lok Kumar Shrestha, Jonathan P. Hill, Katsuhiko Ariga, Shyam Sharan Shrestha, Stefania Sut, Ram Lal Swagat Shrestha, Stefano Dall'Acqua   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impacts of different grades of tropical cyclones on infectious diarrhea in Guangdong, 2005-2011. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2015
Guangdong province is one of the most vulnerable provinces to tropical cyclones in China. Most prior studies concentrated on the relationship between tropical cyclones and injuries and mortality.
Ruihua Kang, Huanmiao Xun, Ying Zhang, Wei Wang, Xin Wang, Baofa Jiang, Wei Ma   +6 more
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Ameboma: A Colon Carcinoma-Like Lesion in a Colonoscopy Finding

Case Reports in Gastroenterology, 2013
Ameboma is a rare complication of amebic colitis presenting as a mass of granulation tissue with peripheral fibrosis and a core of inflammation related to amebic chronic infection.
Chung-Cheng Lin, Kuo-Yao Kao
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A simple method for culturing Acanthamoeba from soft contact lens at a clinical laboratory of a hospital: Case report of Acanthamoeba keratitis

Clinical Case Reports, Volume 11, Issue 11, November 2023., 2023
Culturing method for Acanthamoeba. (A) Translucent plaques (arrows) at the edge of bacterial white plaques as well as the inside after incubation for 4 days at 30°C on Sabouraud dextrose agar plate painted with heat‐treated (at 60°C for 15 min) Escherichia coli. Saline washed with the contact lens was inoculated at the center of the dish.
Toshihiko Matsuo, Motoko Nose
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Inhibition of Amebic Lysosomal Acidification Blocks Amebic Trogocytosis and Cell Killing

mBio, 2017
Entamoeba histolytica ingests fragments of live host cells in a nibbling-like process termed amebic trogocytosis. Amebic trogocytosis is required for cell killing and contributes to tissue invasion, which is a hallmark of invasive amebic colitis.
Allissia A. Gilmartin, Katherine S. Ralston, William A. Petri   +2 more
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Guidelines for the purification and characterization of extracellular vesicles of parasites

Journal of Extracellular Biology, Volume 2, Issue 10, October 2023., 2023
Abstract Parasites are responsible for the most neglected tropical diseases, affecting over a billion people worldwide (WHO, 2015) and accounting for billions of cases a year and responsible for several millions of deaths. Research on extracellular vesicles (EVs) has increased in recent years and demonstrated that EVs shed by pathogenic parasites ...
Carmen Fernandez‐Becerra, Patrícia Xander, Daniel Alfandari, George Dong, Iris Aparici‐Herraiz, Irit Rosenhek‐Goldian, Mehrdad Shokouhy, Melisa Gualdron‐Lopez, Nicholy Lozano, Nuria Cortes‐Serra, Paula Abou Karam, Paula Meneghetti, Rafael Pedro Madeira, Ziv Porat, Rodrigo Pedro Soares, Adriana Oliveira Costa, Sima Rafati, Anabela‐Cordeiro da Silva, Nuno Santarém, Christopher Fernandez‐Prada, Marcel I. Ramirez, Dolores Bernal, Antonio Marcilla, Vera Lucia Pereira‐Chioccola, Lysangela Ronalte Alves, Hernando Del Portillo, Neta Regev‐Rudzki, Igor Correia de Almeida, Sergio Schenkman, Martin Olivier, Ana Claudia Torrecilhas   +30 more
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An Analytical Approach for Temporal Infection Mapping and Composite Index Development

Mathematics, 2023
Significant and composite indices for infectious disease can have implications for developing interventions and public health. This paper presents an investment for developing access to further analysis of the incidence of individual and multiple ...
Weiwei Wang, Futian Weng, Jianping Zhu, Qiyuan Li, Xiaolong Wu   +4 more
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