Chemoprophylaxis of Amoebiasis with Entamide Furoate

Diagnosis of Intestinal Amoebiasis with Indirect Fluorescent Antibody Test

SUMMARY The results of direct stool examination in 102 watery and bloody diarrhea patients were compared with the presence of antibodies against Entamoeba histolytica with Indirect Fluorescent Antibody Test. Besides 22 healthy individuals included in this study as control group. It was found that 22 patients (21.5%) with a sera titre higher than 1/320 bad only 9 (8.8%) positive E. Histolytica ...

Treatment of Amoebiasis

Pathogenesis of amoebiasis.

Cerebral amoebiasis.

Amoebiasis caused by entamoeba histolytica mainly involves the gastrointestinal tract. Its extraintestinal involvement is mainly seen in liver and lung. Involvement of the brain is known but extremely unusual. Even rarer is involvement of the brain without any involvement of lung or liver. We present cerebral computed tomographic findings of a case with cerebral amoebiasis without any involveme...

Amoebiasis in homosexual men.

The clinical, histopathological, and serological features of 35 homosexual men with infection with Entamoeba histolytica were studied and compared with a group of 35 non-infected homosexual men. Each isolate was of Zymodeme type I. Although there was no significant difference in the numbers of infected and non-infected men with gastrointestinal symptoms (48.6% and 28.6% respectively), the mean ...