Publications
| prevalence and clinical importance of entamoeba histolytica in two high-risk groups: travelers returning from the tropics and male homosexuals. | this study was undertaken to learn the prevalence of amebiasis and to assess the clinical importance of entamoeba histolytica in two high-risk groups: 2700 travelers returning from the tropics and 320 male homosexuals. some 16.3% of the homosexual men and 4.0% of the travelers had e. histolytica infections. only five travelers showed a pathogenic zymodeme of e. histolytica, which correlated closely with invasive amebiasis with positive amebic serology and clinical symptoms with diarrhea. the hom ... | 1990 | 2324531 |
| aetiology of community-acquired, acute gastroenteritis in hospitalised adults: a prospective cohort study. | the aetiology of severe gastroenteritis leading to hospitalisation in adults frequently remains unclear. our objective was to study the causes and characteristics of community-acquired, acute gastroenteritis in adult hospitalized patients to support the clinical management of these patients. | 2008 | 18940017 |