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Necrotizing amebic colitis in an elder patient: an unexpected autopsy finding [PDF]

Autopsy and Case Reports, 2023
Necrotizing amebic colitis is an uncommon amebiasis complication associated with high mortality. We present a case of necrotizing amebic colitis in an old patient whose diagnosis was revealed at postmortem examination.
Maria Aparecida Marchesan Rodrigues, Bruno Miamoto, Rosa Marlene Viero   +2 more
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Early Clinical Response of a Large Amebic Liver Abscess to Eravacycline Prior to Metronidazole Initiation: A Case Report [PDF]

Case Reports in Infectious Diseases
Entamoeba histolytica is an amebic protozoan that is often asymptomatic, with many patients being asymptomatic carriers. However, 10 percent of cases manifest with amebic dysentery and, less commonly, amebic liver abscesses.
Jamal A. Anthony, Andrew Robinson, Lisa Pedroza   +2 more
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Inhibition of Amebic Lysosomal Acidification Blocks Amebic Trogocytosis and Cell Killing [PDF]

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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AMEBIC DYSENTERY [PDF]

Southern Medical Journal, 1909
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SIDNEY K. SIMON
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Proteomic comparison of Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar and the role of E. histolytica alcohol dehydrogenase 3 in virulence. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2009
The protozoan intestinal parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects millions of people worldwide and is capable of causing amebic dysentery and amebic liver abscess.
Paul H Davis, Minghe Chen, Xiaochun Zhang, C Graham Clark, R Reid Townsend, Samuel L Stanley   +5 more
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Atypical fulminant presentation of amebiasis in chronic kidney disease patient on maintenance hemodialysis

CHRISMED Journal of Health and Research, 2016
Amebiasis is a common cause of dysentery in India and can have an atypical fulminant course with negative serological tests in immunosuppressed individuals such as chronic kidney disease (CKD).
Manmeet Singh Jhawar, Jasmin Das, Pratish George, Kanwardeep Singh Kwatra   +3 more
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Epidemiology of reportable infectious diseases in the Najran Health Cluster [PDF]

Journal of Family and Community Medicine
: BACKGROUND: To control disease outbreaks and promote the prevention of disease, monitoring the burden of infectious illnesses and their epidemiology is essential.
Seham M. Eldeeb, Rashed S. Alqudhaya, Salem A. Alsalem, Ali M. Alsalem, Alhassan M. Alhawkash, Zaid M. Alqureshah, Morshed H. Alswaidan, Ghaitha S. Alyami   +7 more
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AMEBIC DYSENTERY IN CHILDREN [PDF]

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1914
Amebic dysentery is a relatively rare disease in children, not because children are not susceptible to the infection but because they are less exposed to the etiologic factors which cause the infection in the adult. It is possible that in children it may exist much more often than is believed but may escape detection.
L. R. DeBUYS, DeBUYS, L. R.
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Correlation between notifiable infectious diseases and transportation passenger traffic from 2013 to 2019 in mainland China [PDF]

BMC Public Health
Purpose Population mobility significantly contributes to the spread and prevalence of infectious diseases, posing a serious threat to public health safety and sustainable development across the globe.
Cuiping Xia, Jinyu Wang, Zhongxin Wang, Jilu Shen   +3 more
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Amebiasis and amebic dysentery

American Journal of Digestive Diseases and Nutrition, 1934
"References" at end of each chapter. ; Mode of access: Internet.
Charles F. Craig
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