Etiology of Acute Diarrhea in Adults in Southwestern Nigeria
Journal of Clinical MicrobiologyPublished 1 August 2004Open access
Amha Kebede, Anton M. Polderman
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The extensive experience with the diagnosis and epidemiology of amebiasis in Ethiopia revealed that, in contrast with the general belief, E. histolytica is quite rare, and unless powerful speciesspecific diagnostic tests are used, this work has to believe that most of these reported cases of “E. histynthia” are in fact cases of E. dispar or altogether different intestinal amoeba.
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