| a survey of entamoeba histolytica and entamoeba dispar (brumpt) infections on mahé, the seychelles. | e. histolytica, pathogenic, and e. dispar, non-pathogenic, being morphologically identical are, when recovered as cysts in feces, diagnosed as e. histolytica. a survey on the seychelles demonstrated that when culture and zymodeme characterization was used to compare against microscopy alone, the risk of overdiagnosis of e. histolytica infections was drastically reduced. from a total of 313 subjects tested 21 cultures grew amebas. by zymodeme analysis eight were e. histolytica, 40 were e. dispar ... | 1992 | 1340310 |