Entamoeba species associated with chronic diarrhoea in Pakistan

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 323-328

  Yakoob, J ^a   Abbas, Z ^a   Beg, M A ^b   Naz, S ^a   Khan, R ^a   Jafri, W ^a  

^a AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

^b AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

Diarrhoea; Entamoeba dispar; Entamoeba histolytica; Entamoeba moshkovskii; PCR

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL DISCOMFORT; ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMEBIASIS; ARTICLE; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST (RESTING STAGE); DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA DISPAR; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBA MOSHKOVSKII; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HISTOCHEMISTRY; HUMAN; IRRITABLE COLON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROSCOPY; PAKISTAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ADULT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIARRHEA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DYSENTERY, AMEBIC; ENTAMOEBA; ENTAMOEBA HISTOLYTICA; ENTAMOEBIASIS; FECES; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRITABLE BOWEL SYNDROME; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PAKISTAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84455181387     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811000215     Document Type: Article

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