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J Clin Microbiol
; 36(10): 3044-5, 1998 Oct.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-9738064
ABSTRACT
In a slum community in northeastern Brazil 20% of a sample population was colonized with Entamoeba histolytica or Entamoeba dispar and 10.6% was colonized with E. histolytica alone. No correlation between seropositivity for anti-Ga1NAc lectin antibody and colonization was found. These results suggest that colonization does not necessarily produce immunity to reinfection.