ALLMedicine™ Amebiasis Center

Mar 8th, 2023 - Diagnostic Considerations Differentiation between ulcerative colitis (UC) and Crohn disease is critical to developing a treatment plan (see Table 1 below). In addition, prolonged use of cathartics, especially cascara, over many years may lead to a...

Feb 24th, 2023 - Diarrheal diseases are one of the main health problems worldwide, especially in developing countries with poor health systems, high rates of poverty, and poor nutrition. The main causative agents of diarrheal disease are bacteria, viruses, and par...

Jan 26th, 2023 - This is a phase IIa, randomized, placebo-controlled, single-blinded superiority treatment study in males and non-pregnant females, 18 to 65 years of age who are in good health. This study is designed to compare placebo to once daily doses of 6mg a...

Oct 5th, 2022 - Practice Essentials An enterovesical fistula (EVF), also known as a vesicoenteric or intestinovesical fistula, occurs between the bowel and the bladder.[1] Normally, the urinary system is completely separated from the alimentary canal. Connections...

Oct 5th, 2022 - Practice Essentials An enterovesical fistula (EVF), also known as a vesicoenteric or intestinovesical fistula, occurs between the bowel and the bladder. [1] Normally, the urinary system is completely separated from the alimentary canal. Connection...

Jan 26th, 2023 - This is a phase IIa, randomized, placebo-controlled, single-blinded superiority treatment study in males and non-pregnant females, 18 to 65 years of age who are in good health. This study is designed to compare placebo to once daily doses of 6mg a...

Oct 26th, 2021 - Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2/2019-nCoV) and has developed into a pandemic with serious global public health and economic sequelae. As of June 30, 2020 over 10,000,...

Dec 8th, 2020 - chronic diarrhea is defined as having loose or watery stools more than three times aday.Awakening at night to pass stools us often sign of an organic cause of diarrhea.In some cases chronic diarrhea is the result of intestinal infection that persi...

Oct 26th, 2017 - Entamoeba histolytica infection results from ingestion of the cyst of Entamoeba histolytica from fecally-contaminated food or water. Local invasion results in amebic dysentery and metastasis to amebic liver abscess. The diagnosis of intestinal ame...

Apr 28th, 2017 - Auranofin is a gold-containing chemical salt, granted as an orphan drug status for use in the treatment of amebiasis. Amebiasis is a parasitic infection caused by the protozoon Entamoeba histolytica. It affects about ten percent of the world's pop...

Nov 30th, 2016 - To the Editor: A 50-year-old man presented with a painful ulcer and a burning sensation on the tongue of 2 days’ duration (Figure, A). The ulcer had a yellowish white appearance with erythematous borders.

Jul 1st, 2016 - Micrograph showing CMV Image by Ed Uthman Research published in PLOS Pathogens suggests that emetine, a drug once used to treat amebiasis and induce vomiting in cases of poisoning, may also halt replication of cytomegalovirus (CMV). Although there.

Jul 28th, 2014 - Mr. Dowell: Are there other factors that can make it difficult to diagnose cyclosporiasis? Dr. Herwaldt: Diagnosing cyclosporiasis can be difficult, in part because even persons who have profuse diarrhea might not shed enough Cyclospora parasites ...

Pyoderma gangrenosum (PG) is an idiopathic, progressive, ulcerative skin disease. Half of all cases are associated with identifiable systemic diseases including arthritis,1 hepatitis,2 blood dyscrasia,3 and immunosuppression.

BETHESDA, MD. — Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in gay men might be associated with drug use and low levels of hygiene, especially after having sex.