Entamoeba histolytica and Entamoeba dispar: differentiation by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbet Assay (ELISA) and its clinical correlation in pediatric patients
Parasitol. latinoam
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61(1/2): 37-42, jun. 2006. tab, graf
Artigo
em Inglês
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| ID: lil-432847
ABSTRACT
Studies were carried out at a mexican pediatric hospital to determine the ratio between the pathogenic species Entamoeba histolytica and non-pathogenic species E. dispar using an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) to detect the lectin (1 galactose N-acetyl D-galactosamine) of E. histolytica in feces. A close correlation was noted between the presence of the E. histolytica lectin and clinical symptoms. In the study, amebas were detected by microscopy in 120 children (either E. histolytica or E. dispar). But while almost all (13/14) of the children with E. histolytica had clinical symptoms, dysentery-feces with mocus and blood, diarrhea, cramping abdominal pain, tenesmus rectal, flatulence, vomiting and headache, almost none (1/106) of the children infected with the non-pathogenic ameba E. dispar had signs and symptoms. This suggests that much of the amebiasis diagnoses made in Mexico are, in fact, due to non-pathogenic E. dispar.
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Índice:
LILACS (Américas)
Assunto principal:
Disenteria Amebiana
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Entamoeba histolytica
Tipo de estudo:
Estudo diagnóstico
Limite:
Adolescente
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Criança
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Criança, pré-escolar
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Humanos
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Lactente
País/Região como assunto:
México
Idioma:
Inglês
Revista:
Parasitol. latinoam
Assunto da revista:
Parasitologia
Ano de publicação:
2006
Tipo de documento:
Artigo
País de afiliação:
México
Instituição/País de afiliação:
Hospital Infantil de Mexico Federico Gómez/MX
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Laboratorios Baer/MX
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