| molecular diagnosis of entamoeba spp. versus microscopy in the great cairo. | amoebiasis is a human disease produced by entamoeba histolytica which causes widespread mortality and morbidity worldwide through diarrheal disease and abscess establishment in parenchymal tissues such as liver, lung, and brain. the true prevalence of infection is unknown for most areas of the world due to the difficulty to characterise entamoeba histolytica versus other non-pathogenic amoebas with identical morphology, as entamoeba dispar, and entamoeba moshkovskii. to overcome microscopy misid ... | 2017 | 28030342 |
| diagnosis of amoebic colitis by antigen capture elisa in patients presenting with acute diarrhoea in cairo, egypt. | we studied 84 consecutive patients presenting with acute diarrhoea (less than 1 week in duration) at an outpatient tropical medicine clinic in cairo, egypt. the diagnosis of amoebic colitis was established by the presence of entamoeba histolytica galactose-inhibitable lectin antigen and the presence of occult blood in stool. controls were 182 healthy regional people and 64 patients complaining of prolonged diarrhoea lasting more than 1 week. entamoeba histolytica infection was found more frequen ... | 2002 | 11952953 |