7 Institute for Research in Molecular Medicine, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 11800, Penang 8 Malaysia, 9 School of Health Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, 16150, Kelantan, Malaysia, 10 Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, School of Medical Sciences, 11 Universiti Sains Malaysia, 16150, Kelantan, Malaysia, 12 Departmento de Medicina Experimental, Facultad de Medicina, Universid...

Specific identification of Entamoeba spp. in clinical specimens is an important confirmatory diagnostic step in the management of patients who may be infected with Entamoeba histolytica, the species that causes clinical amebiasis. Distinct real-time PCR protocols have recently been published for identification of E. histolytica and differentiation from the morphologically identical nonpathogeni...

Dysentery amebae may live for 72 hours in vitro. The transition of the large vegetative forms into the cyst may be observed in vitro. The large vegetative ameba always passes into an intermediate stage before assuming the small vegetative form. The atypical forms are dysentery amebas with abnormal nuclei and cytoplasm. When circumstances are unfavorable encystment takes place. Under favorable c...

UNLABELLED Amoebiasis is an infection caused by Entamoeba histolytica and is a potential health risk in countries in which health barriers are inappropriate. Since the discovery of Entamoeba dispar, the prevalence of amoebiasis has been modified. OBJECTIVE This study has standardized the PCR technique applied for the diagnosis of different species of the E. histolytica/E. dispar complex and h...