Amoebiasis in homosexual men
| Autor: | G R Scott, A McMillan, H M Gilmour, G McNeillage |
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| Rok vydání: | 1984 |
| Předmět: |
Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Rectum Gastroenterology Serology Entamoeba histolytica Intestinal mucosa Internal medicine medicine Humans Amoebiasis Intestinal Mucosa biology Dysentery Histology Homosexuality Middle Aged medicine.disease biology.organism_classification medicine.anatomical_structure Scotland Immunology Dysentery Amebic biology.protein Antibody Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Gut. 25:356-360 |
| ISSN: | 0017-5749 |
| DOI: | 10.1136/gut.25.4.356 |
| Popis: | The clinical, histopathological, and serological features of 35 homosexual men with infection with Entamoeba histolytica were studied and compared with a group of 35 non-infected homosexual men. Each isolate was of Zymodeme type I. Although there was no significant difference in the numbers of infected and non-infected men with gastrointestinal symptoms (48.6% and 28.6% respectively), the mean duration of symptoms was greater in with amoebiasis (p less than 0.05). The histology of the rectal mucosa was abnormal in 17 (63.0%) of the 27 men with amoebic infection only and in two (7.4%) of the 27 control subjects (p less than 0.001). Serum antibodies reactive with E. histolytica were not shown in any patient. |
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