Amoebic liver abscesses can be detected by ultrasonographic or radiographic testing. Serological methods to detect the bacterium can be used; in 90% of cases, ...

Scientists have identified an arthritis drug that acts very effectively against a parasite causing amoebic dysentery and liver abscesses, which kill over 70,000 people worldwide annually.

This parasite causes amebic dysentery and liver abscesses and results in the death of more than 70,000 people worldwide ... PhD, professor of Pathology in the UCSF Sandler Center for Drug ...

Acute amoebic colitis ranges from mild to severe, and can be fulminant, leading to colon perforation. Amoebic liver abscess is the most common extraintestinal form of invasive amoebiasis. [ 67 ] ...

THERE is much controversy as to whether or not amœbic hepatitis occurs as an entity, as distinct from the well-recognized amœbic liver abscess. Recently, we reported a case of long-standing ...

E. histolytica is remarkable in exhibiting two different facets of its life in the gut. On one hand, amoebic trophozoites can remain as a commensal without causing any intestinal pathology, which ...

Figure 1.Imaging findings in a 41-year-old man with hepatic manifestation of amebic liver abscess; A – chest X-ray showing fluid in the right pleural cavity (arrow); B, C – computed tomography showing ...

Similarly, in amebic granuloma of the cecum, obscure fever may be the only presenting feature. Two cases with prolonged histories of fever and weakness, eventually diagnosed as cecal amebiasis ...

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