A 47-year-old man presented with a one-week history of fever (temperature up to 40.4°C), abdominal pain in the right upper quadrant and mild jaundice. He had no history of diarrhea. Apart from a ...

Such abscesses may be single or multiple, acute or chronic. In an analysis of 1000 cases of amebic dysentery Payne 3 found hepatitis to be present in over 50 per cent and liver abscess in almost 3 per ...

A healthy 15-year-old girl suffered fatal meningoencephalitis due to free-living amebas identified as naegleria. The organisms were cultured from cerebrospinal fluid, brain, lung, liver and spleen, ...

Amebic Colitis is caused by the anaerobic parasitic amoebozoan Entameba histolytica. This bacterium infects the mucosa in the colon and accounts for 100,000 deaths annually. The parasite infects 10% ...

THERE is much controversy as to whether or not amœbic hepatitis occurs as an entity, as distinct from the well-recognized amœbic liver abscess. Recently, we reported a case of long-standing amœbiasis ...

Hepatic abscesses can develop from biliary translocation, portal vein dissemination, or trauma; many have no obvious cause. They can be pyogenic or amebic, with pyogenic liver abscesses more common in ...