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  2. Amoebiasis - Wikipedia

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    Pulmonary amoebiasis can occur from liver lesions by spread through the blood or by perforation of pleural cavity and lung. It can cause lung abscess, pulmono pleural fistula, empyema lung and broncho pleural fistula. It can also reach the brain through blood vessels and cause amoebic brain abscess and amoebic meningoencephalitis.

  3. List of parasites of humans - Wikipedia

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    Amoebiasis: Entamoeba histolytica: intestines (mainly colon, but can cause liver failure if not treated) stool (fresh diarrheic stools have amoeba, solid stool has cyst) areas with poor sanitation, high population density and tropical regions fecal-oral transmission of cyst, not amoeba Giardiasis: Giardia lamblia: lumen of the small intestine ...

  4. List of ICD-9 codes 001–139: infectious and parasitic diseases

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    006 Amoebiasis. 006.0 Acute amoebic dysentery without mention of abscess; 006.1 Chronic intestinal amoebiasis without mention of abscess; 006.2 Amoebic nondysenteric colitis; 006.3 Amoebic liver abscess; 006.4 Amoebic lung abscess; 006.5 Amoebic brain abscess; 006.6 Amoebic skin ulceration; 006.8 Amoebic infection of other sites; 006.9 ...

  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. List of infectious diseases - Wikipedia

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    Amoebiasis: Microscopy Those with symptoms require treatment with an amoebicidal tissue-active agent and a luminal cysticidal agent. Individuals that are asymptomatic only need a luminal cysticidal agent. No Anaplasma species Anaplasmosis: indirect immunofluorescence antibody assay for IgG

  7. Free-living Amoebozoa infection - Wikipedia

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    Free-living amoebae (or "FLA") [1] are a group of protozoa that are important causes of infectious disease in humans and animals.. Naegleria fowleri is often included in the group "free-living amoebae", [2] [3] and this species causes a usually fatal condition traditionally called primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM).

  8. Parasitic pneumonia - Wikipedia

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    Parasitic pneumonia is a type of pneumonia caused by parasites.Pneumonia is an inflammatory condition of the lungs, most commonly caused by bacteria or viruses. [1] Parasites are an uncommon cause of pneumonia, usually affecting immunocompromised individuals or those in underdeveloped countries. [2]

  9. Amoebic liver abscess - Wikipedia

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    A amoebic liver abscess is a type of liver abscess caused by amebiasis. [1] It is the involvement of liver tissue by trophozoites of the organism Entamoeba histolytica and of its abscess due to necrosis.