| [antiamebic effect of metronidazole proved in a study conducted in cienfuegos province]. | three studies were conducted in cienfuegos province to prove that intestinal amebiasis in cuba could be an overestimated health problem. the first two studies showed two components of this overestimation: microscopical overdiagnosis and lack of knowledge about entamoeba dispar, a non-pathogenic species, in most cases in which microscopical examination was correct. this paper reported the third study that showed the third component: the wrong belief that entamoeba histolytica is resistant to metr ... | 2002 | 15849935 |