My patient is a 35-year-old man with a history of abdominal pain and loose stools for the past 8 months. He has approximately 1-2 episodes per month. Three months ago a stool analysis showed Entamoeba ...

A 39-year-old woman presented to the emergency department with a five-day history of fever, chills, diarrhea, and pain in the right shoulder and right upper quadrant of her abdomen. Four months ...

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).

ALA = Amoebic liver abscess; Eh = Entamoeba histolytica; EhCP = E. histolytica cysteine proteinase; Ehserp = E. histolytica serine proteinase; EhSTIRP = Serine threonine isoleucine-rich protein; KERP1 ...

For decades scientists have been puzzled by a tiny parasite that affects millions worldwide, with the power to liquefy human organs and evade the immune system in ways that science hasn't been able to ...

A 36 year old male patient from Gatsata, Nyabugogo, has consulted our outpatient department for abdominal pain that has persisted for over two weeks; he has developed frequent bowel movements or ...

Stool specimens from 826 food handlers were examined for enteropathogenic bacteria and intestinal parasites. One hundred and eighteen (14.3%) contained Salmonella enteritidis and 8 (1%) contained ...

The single-celled parasite Entamoeba histolytica infects approximately 50 million people each year, causing nearly 70,000 deaths. In most cases, this shape-shifting amoeba causes only mild symptoms, ...

Entamoeba histolytica (Eh) is an extracellular protozoan parasite of humans that either harmlessly colonizes the mucus layer of the colon or triggers disease when it moves from the intestinal lumen ...

The pathogenesis of a potentially fatal amoeba, Entamoeba histolytica (E. histolytica), has been discovered, showing that the organism uses a process coined as trogocytosis, to nibble sections of a ...