Figure 1.
Abdominal computed tomography showing multiple liver abscesses of a 28-year-old male homosexual who presented with right upper quadrant pain, vomiting, and watery diarrhea for 4 days.
Diagnosis of amebic liver abscess was confirmed by positive PCR for Entamoeba histolytica of the liver abscess aspirate. The titer of indirect hemagglutination antibody for E. histolytica was 8192.
Figure 2.
Colonoscopy of the same patient showing multiple ulcers at the cecum, and ascending, transverse, and descending colon.
Table 1.
Clinical characteristics of 64 patients with 67 episodes of invasive amebiasis.
Figure 3.
Study populations to determine the incidence of amebiasis among HIV-infected patients between 1994 and 2005.
Table 2.
Characteristics of non-hemophiliac patients aged 15 years or greater who had baseline and follow-up indirect hemagglutination (IHA) assays.
Table 3.
Characteristics of non-hemophiliac patients aged15 years or greater who had baseline and follow-up stool amebic antigen assays.
Figure 4.
Results E. histolytica genotyping.