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Entamoeba
histolytica (Amebiasis)
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Tables and Figures
Table
1: Activity of Antiparasitic Drugs Against E. histolytica Strain 200 in
Axenic Culture
Table
2: Antimicrobial Therapy for E. histolytica Infection
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Figure 1. Motile E. histolytica
Trophozoite in Stool Sample Showing Ingested Red Blood Cells.
Image courtesy of the Herman Zaiman collection.
Figure 2. Colonoscopy of a Patient with Amebic
Colitis who Presented with Right
Lower
Quadrant Pain and Bloody Diarrhea
Figure 3. Computed Tomography of a Patient with
Amebic Liver Abscess who Presented with Fever, Right Upper Quadrant Pain
and Pleuritic Pain
Vignettes
Life cycle of
Amebiasis
Authors
Eric
Houpt, M.D., Chien-Ching
Hung, M.D., M.Sc.,
William Petri, M.D.,Ph.D.
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