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  2. Cutaneous amoebiasis - Wikipedia

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    Balamuthia mandrillaris can also cause cutaneous amoebiasis, but can prove fatal if the amoeba enters the bloodstream [7] [8] It is characterized by ulcers. Diagnosis of amebiasis cutis calls for high degree of clinical suspicion. This needs to be backed with demonstration of trophozoites from lesions. Unless an early diagnosis can be made such ...

  3. Amoebiasis - Wikipedia

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    Amoebiasis, or amoebic dysentery, is an infection of the intestines caused by a parasitic amoeba Entamoeba histolytica. [3] [4] Amoebiasis can be present with no, mild, or severe symptoms. [2] Symptoms may include lethargy, loss of weight, colonic ulcerations, abdominal pain, diarrhea, or bloody diarrhea.

  4. Paromomycin - Wikipedia

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    Paromomycin is an antimicrobial used to treat a number of parasitic infections including amebiasis, giardiasis, leishmaniasis, and tapeworm infection. [3] It is a first-line treatment for amebiasis or giardiasis during pregnancy. [3] Otherwise, it is generally a second line treatment option. [3]

  5. Protozoan infection - Wikipedia

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    The usage of conventional therapeutics to treat amoebiasis if often linked with substantial side effects, a threat to the efficacy of these therapeutics, further worsened by the development of drug resistance in the parasite. [20] Amoebic meningoencephalitis and keratitis is a brain-eating amoeba caused by free-living Naeglaria and Acanthomoeba.

  6. Amebicide - Wikipedia

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    Treatment by use of primitive medicines [ edit ] The Nicobarese people have attested to the medicinal properties found in Glochidion calocarpum , a plant endemic to India, saying that its bark and seed are most effective in curing abdominal disorders associated with amoebiasis .

  7. Diloxanide - Wikipedia

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    Diloxanide furoate works only in the digestive tract and is a lumenal amebicide. [2] [6] It is considered second line treatment for infection with amoebas when no symptoms are present but the person is passing cysts, in places where infections are not common.

  8. Malpighamoeba mellificae - Wikipedia

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    Malpighamoeba mellificae is a single-celled parasite which affects excretory organs (Malpighian tubules) of adult bees, causing the contagious disease called amoebiasis, which ultimately leads to death of the host. [1] Worker bees are most prone to being infected. It is commonly found in collaboration with nosemosis.

  9. Dientamoebiasis - Wikipedia

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    As many individuals are asymptomatic carriers of D. fragilis, pathogenic and nonpathogenic variants are proposed to exist.A study of D. fragilis isolates from 60 individuals with symptomatic infection in Sydney, Australia, found all were infected with the same genotype, [4] which is the most common worldwide, but differed from the genotype first described from a North American isolate and ...