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Amoebiasis

Amoebiasis is infection by a protozoan, typically Entamoeba histolytica. It is usually contracted by ingesting water or food contaminated by amoebic cysts. more...

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Symptoms are usually gastrointestinal including diarrhoea, vomiting, abdominal pain or discomfort and fever. Symptoms take from a few days to a few weeks to develop and manifest themselves, but usually it is about two to four weeks. Most infected people are asymptomatic but this disease has the potential to make the sufferer dangerously ill, especially if there is any suggestion of immunocompromise.

Diagnosis of amoebiasis is confirmed by finding cysts in the stools of the patient.

The first line antibiotic of choice in amoebiasis is metronidazole.

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Clinical amoebiasis: With an appendix on laboratory diagnosis, (Prentice-Hall speech series) $24.95 Experimental and clinical studies on amoebiasis
Experimental amoebiasis in the rabbit, (University of California publications in zoology) (University of California publications in zoology)

Protective activity of picroliv on hepatic amoebiasis associated with carbon tetrachloride toxicity
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