Salpingitis due to Entamoeba histolytica

Salpingitis due to Entamoeba histolytica.

We describe the pathology of a unique case of Fallopian tube amebiasis, associated with hydrosalpinx, in a 21-year-old woman. She complained of lower abdominal pain, had a foul-smelling green vaginal discharge and fever during one week. There was a discrete increase in body temperature and a painful abdominal palpation at the lower right side, with signs of local peritoneal irritation. Patholog...

Appendicitis Due to Entamoeba Histolytica

While symptoms simulating appendicitis may occur in amoebic infections without the appendix being involved, a good proportion of patients exhibiting such symptoms actually are suffering from an invasion of the appendix by the parasite and the inflammatory condition of the organ brought about by such invasion. The following is an interesting case note of appendicitis due to E. histolytica. In Au...

Entamoeba histolytica liver abscess.

CMAJ • NOVEMBER 9, 2010 • 182(16) © 2010 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors 1758 A39-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 earlier, she had returned from Puebla, Mexico, where she had been studying for five months. She had had abdomina...

PRELIMINARY COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA AND ENTAMOEBA DISPAR BY PCR TECHNIQUE IN IRAN

It has been suggested that two distinct species exist within what was originally known as Entamoeba histolytica and E. dispar. These are Entamoeba dispar for the nonpathogenic and E. histolytica for the pathogenic fonn. Differentiation of these two organisms is of great clinical importance since they are morphologically indistinguishable and both fonns can infect the human intestinal cavity...

entamoeba histolytica or entamoeba histolytica/e. dispar