Two cases of rarely recognized infection with Entamoeba moshkovskii.
We report two cases (a 36-year-old woman and 2-year-old girl) infected with Entamoeba moshkovskii in Turkey. Entamoeba moshkovskii was identified and distinguished from the morphologically identical parasites E. histolytica and E. dispar by a nested polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the small subunit ribosomal DNA gene.
Tanyuksel
Mehmet
M
Division of Medical Parasitology, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Etlik, Ankara, Turkey. mtanyuksel@gata.edu.tr
Ulukanligil
Mustafa
M
Guclu
Zeynep
Z
Araz
Engin
E
Koru
Ozgur
O
Petri
William A
WA
D000328:Adult; D000818:Animals; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004747:Entamoeba / Q000145:classification* / Q000502:physiology*; D004749:Entamoebiasis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology*; D005243:Feces / Q000469:parasitology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016133:Polymerase Chain Reaction / Q000379:methods