For patients with liver abscesses, non-surgical aspiration may be necessary. To enhance treatment and prevention, a better understanding of amoebic colitis is necessary.

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 ...

A high rate of amoebic liver abscess in this series (37.1%) was demonstrated; Gram-negative aerobes were the major abscess pathogens.

However, the events that mark the pathogenesis of amoebiasis, which mainly includes amoebic colitis and amoebic liver abscess, are fairly well studied.

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.

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 ...

The causative agent of amebic dysentery (amebiasis) is the cosmopolitan protozoan Entamoeba histolytica.1 In Poland, cases of the disease are usually imported. The infection occurs via the oral route.

An existing drug has been found to be effective against Entamoeba histolytica. This parasite causes amebic dysentery and liver abscesses and results in the death of more than 70,000 people ...

The term amebic meningoencephalitis describes better the histopathologic findings than the currently used classification of primary amebic meningoencephalitis and granulomatous amebic encephalitis.