Observations on Urinary Amoebiasis

Observations on the Urinary Excretion of Sulfadiazine.

Although the kidney is the main excretory channel for the sulfonamide drugs' as well as the site of some of the most serious complications resulting from their use, the factors influencing their excretion have received less attention than they deserve. Marshall, Emerson, and Cutting (1) concluded from their studies on dogs that increasing the rate of urine flow apparently increased the renal cl...

Observations on Stone in the Urinary Bladder, and on Lithotomy

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...

Treatment of Amoebiasis

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 ...