title: A survey of Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar (Brumpt) infections on Mahé, the Seychelles.
abstract: E. histolytica, pathogenic, and E. dispar, non-pathogenic, being morphologically identical are, when recovered as cysts in feces, diagnosed as E. histolytica. A survey on The Seychelles demonstrated that when culture and zymodeme characterization was used to compare against microscopy alone, the risk of overdiagnosis of E. histolytica infections was drastically reduced. From a total of 313 subjects tested 21 cultures grew amebas. By zymodeme analysis eight were E. histolytica, 40 were E. dispar and the remainder were various species of non-pathogenic intestinal amebas. Two further small comparative surveys confirmed these findings.
authors.affiliation: London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK.
authors.forename: P G
authors.initials: PG
authors.lastname: Sargeaunt
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000818:Animals; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004404:Dysentery, Amebic / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology; D004747:Entamoeba / Q000145:classification* / Q000302:isolation & purification / Q000472:pathogenicity; D004748:Entamoeba histolytica / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004749:Entamoebiasis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology*; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010274:Parasitology / Q000379:methods; D012750:Seychelles / Q000453:epidemiology; D013045:Species Specificity; D014774:Virulence