GC: n

S: WHO – http://www.who.int/ith/diseases/amoebiasis/en/ (last access: 24 October 2014); CDC – http://www.cdc.gov/parasites/amebiasis/ (last access: 24 October 2014).

N: 1. Infection with or disease caused by amoebas (especially Entamoeba histolytica)
2. Posible variant chiefly in British: amoebiasis.
3. Transmission occurs via the faecal–oral route, either directly by person-to-person contact or indirectly by eating or drinking faecally contaminated food or water.
4. The clinical spectrum ranges from asymptomatic infection, diarrhoea and dysentery to fulminant colitis and peritonitis as well as extraintestinal amebiasis.
5. Acute amebiasis can present as diarrhoea or dysentery with frequent, small and often bloody stools. Chronic amoebiasis can present with gastrointestinal symptoms plus fatigue, weight loss and occasional fever. Extraintestinal amoebiasis can occur if the parasite spreads to other organs, most commonly the liver where it causes amoebic liver abscess. Amoebic liver abscess presents with fever and right upper quadrant abdominal pain.
6. Occurs worldwide, but is more common in areas or countries with poor sanitation, particularly in the tropics.
7. Amebiasis in the lungs usually develops as an extension of a hepatic abscess by rupture through the diaphragm.

S: 1. MW. 2. MEDLP – http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/article/000298.htm (last access: 2 November 2014). 3, 4, 5 & 6. WHO – http://www.who.int/ith/diseases/amoebiasis/en/ (last access: 2 November 2014). 7. GDT (last access: 24 October 2014).

GV: amibiasis, amoebiasis, amebiosis, amoebiosis, amebosis, amoebosis.

S: GDT (last access: 24 October 2014)

SYN: 1. entamebiasis. 2. endamoebiais, entamebiasis, entamoebiasis.

S: 1. GDT (last access: 24 October 2014); NAVARRO p. 40. 2. NAVARRO p. 40.

CR: amoeba, diarrhea, dysentery, infestation.