DSpace Repository

‘Entamoeba histolytica’ identified by stool microscopy from children with acute diarrhoea in Peru is not E. histolytica

Show simple item record

dc.contributor.author Quispe-Rodriguez, Gabriel H.
dc.contributor.author Wankewicz, Alyssa A.
dc.contributor.author Malaga Granda, Jose Luis
dc.contributor.author Lewis, Ben
dc.contributor.author Stockert, Kassi
dc.contributor.author Clinton White, A. Jr
dc.date.accessioned 2019-12-06T21:04:48Z
dc.date.available 2019-12-06T21:04:48Z
dc.date.issued 2019
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12866/7626
dc.description.abstract Entamoeba histolytica is a rare but feared pathogen owing to its related morbidity and mortality. Physicians in an ambulatory clinic in Cusco noted frequent reports of E. histolytica diagnosed by microscopy. Other non-pathogenic species of Entamoeba have an identical microscopic appearance. To determine whether the organisms were actually E. histolytica, faecal specimens from children aged six months to three years with diarrhoea were tested by a species-specific ELISA for E. histolytica antigen. Although 19/73 patients (26.0%) were presumptively diagnosed with amoebiasis based on microscopy, none were confirmed by ELISA. Most cases diagnosed as E. histolytic by microscopy in Peru are not infected by the pathogenic species and are probably colonised by non-pathogenic amoeba such as Entamoeba dispar. en_US
dc.language.iso eng
dc.publisher SAGE Publications
dc.relation.ispartofseries Tropical Doctor
dc.rights info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
dc.rights.uri https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject Diarrhoea en_US
dc.subject Entamoeba en_US
dc.subject histolytica en_US
dc.subject Peru en_US
dc.title ‘Entamoeba histolytica’ identified by stool microscopy from children with acute diarrhoea in Peru is not E. histolytica en_US
dc.type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.identifier.doi https://doi.org/10.1177/0049475519881037
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.08
dc.subject.ocde https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.05
dc.relation.issn 1758-1133


Files in this item

Files Size Format View

There are no files associated with this item.

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record

info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess Except where otherwise noted, this item's license is described as info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess

Search DSpace


Browse

My Account

Statistics