This parasite causes amebic dysentery and liver abscesses and results in the death ... Reed, MD, professor in the UCSD Departments of Pathology and Medicine and James McKerrow, MD, PhD, professor ...

The symptoms of amoebic colitis arise from epithelial cell penetration and can vary widely but generally include: Liver abscess Colonic granulomatous bumps that can appear as carcinomas Dysentry ...

This report presents a case of primary amebic meningoencephalitis complicated by diffuse myocarditis and hematogenous dissemination of amebas to lung, liver ... as a brain abscess or subdural ...

29–31 Terry and Bozicevich 29 state that "if the clinical picture is consistent with amebic hepatitis or liver abscess, the complement fixation test is far more reliable than a history of ...

Amoebic liver abscess is the most common extraintestinal form of invasive amoebiasis. [67] About 20% of patients with liver abscess have previously had clinical dysentery. [67] Infection can ...

Reed, professor of pathology and medicine at the University ... In a mouse model of amoebic colitis and a hamster model of amoebic liver abscess, the drug markedly decreased the number of ...

Ab = Antibody; ALA = Amoebic liver abscess; CPG-ODN = Cytosine guanine oligodeoxynucleotide; DC = Dendritic cell; FCA = Freund's complete adjuvant; MLIF = Monocyte locomotion inhibitory factor ...