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Novelties on Amoebiasis: A Neglected Tropical Disease by Cecilia Ximénez; Patricia Morán; Liliana Rojas; Alicia Valadez; Alejandro Gómez; Manuel Ramiro; René Cerritos; Enrique González; Eric Hernández; Partida Oswaldo is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

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In accordance with the 1997 documents of the World Health Organization (WHO), amoebiasis is defined as the infection by the protozoan parasite __Entamoeba histolytica__ with or without clinical manifestations. The only known natural host of __E. histolytica__ is the human with the large intestine as major target organ. This parasite has a very simple life cycle in which the infective form is the cyst, considered a resistant form of parasite: The asymptomatic cyst passers and the intestinal amoebiasis patients are the transmitters; they excrete cysts in their feces, which can contaminate food and water sources. __E. histolytica sensu stricto__ is the potentially pathogenic species and __E. dispar__ is a commensal non-pathogenic __Entamoeba__. Both species are biochemical, immunological and genetically distinct. The knowledge of both species with different pathogenic phenotypes comes from a large scientific debate during the second half of the 20^th^ century, which gave place to the rapid development of diagnostics technology based on molecular and immunological strategies. During the last ten years, knowledge of the new epidemiology of amoebiasis in different geographic endemic and

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Author

Cecilia Ximénez; Patricia Morán; Liliana Rojas; Alicia Valadez; Alejandro Gómez; Manuel Ramiro; René Cerritos; Enrique González; Eric Hernández; Partida Oswaldo

Publisher

Medknow Publications; Medknow Publications and Media Pvt. Ltd; Mumbai: Medknow Publications; Medknow (ISSN 0974-777X)

Published

2011

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)