Proceedings: The missed diagnosis of amoebiasis.
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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 ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Pathology
سال: 1976
ISSN: 0021-9746
DOI: 10.1136/jcp.29.1.83-b