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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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Tissue invasion by Entamoeba histolytica: evidence of genetic selection and/or DNA reorganization events in organ tropism. [PDF]

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 2008
Entamoeba histolytica infection may have various clinical manifestations. Nine out of ten E. histolytica infections remain asymptomatic, while the remainder become invasive and cause disease.
Ibne Karim M Ali, Shahram Solaymani-Mohammadi, Jasmine Akhter, Shantanu Roy, Chiara Gorrini, Adriana Calderaro, Sarah K Parker, Rashidul Haque, William A Petri, C Graham Clark   +9 more
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Hypocholesterolemia in Patients with an Amebic Liver Abscess [PDF]

Gut and Liver, 2014
Background/AimsMany parasites induce changes in the lipid profiles of the host. Cholesterol increases the virulence of Entamoeba histolytica in animal models and in vitro culture.
Tamez, Eva, Quintero Zapata, Isela, Rodríguez Pérez, Elba Guadalupe, Bosques Padilla, Francisco Javier, Galán Wong, Luis Jesús, Arévalo Niño, Katiushka, Flores, María S., Obregón Cárdenas, Adriana, Tijerina Menchaca, Rolando   +8 more
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Amebic liver abscess

Annals of Hepatology, 2002
Amebic liver abscess (ALA) highly endemic in most developing tropical countries is being encountered more frequently in other geographical areas maybe secondary to increased travel to areas where the disease is endemic as well as in the homosexual ...
Aldo Torre, MD, David Kershenobich, MD PhD   +1 more
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Hepatic Abscess in a Returning Traveler with Crohn’s Disease: Differentiating Amebic from Pyogenic Liver Abscess

Case Reports in Medicine, 2018
Liver abscess is a rare but serious complication of Crohn’s disease. Patients with Crohn’s disease are at risk for pyogenic liver abscesses due to immunosuppressive therapy, fistulous disease, and intraabdominal abscesses.
Daria Gaut, Hannah Shull, Anthony Bejjani, Daniel Kahn   +3 more
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A note on clinical presentations of amebic liver abscess: an overview from 62 Thai patients [PDF]

BMC Family Practice, 2002
Background Amebic liver abscess is a tropical disease with a wide spectrum of clinical presentations. Given the often nonspecific nature of the complaints related to amebic abscess, a retrospective review of patients with confirmed disease to recognize ...
Wiwanitkit Viroj
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Pyogenic Hepatic Abscess as a Complication of Appendicitis: A Case Report. [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
Pyogenic liver abscess management. ABSTRACT Pyogenic liver abscess is a rare and under‐recognized complication of gangrenous or perforated appendicitis in children. Management typically requires a combination of antibiotic therapy and abscess drainage. Although uncommon in the pediatric population, pyogenic liver abscess is more frequently observed in ...
AshrafAzimi M, Abdollahi A, Karimi M, Jajarmi H, Mehri A.   +4 more
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Recurrent amebic liver abscesses despite metronidazole treatment: A rare case report

Clinical Case Reports (discontinued), 2023
Key Clinical Message Amebic liver abscesses should be considered in adult males with a liver abscess and a history of travel to endemic areas. Effective treatment includes metronidazole, followed by paromomycin.
Sasan Noveir
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Amebic liver abscess: A case report [PDF]

IDCases
Amebic liver abscess (ALA), caused by Entamoeba histolytica, is the most common extraintestinal manifestation of amebiasis. However, in contemporary clinical practice, diagnosis increasingly relies on serology and polymerase chain reaction (PCR), whereas
Xiaoying Xu, Qingling lin
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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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