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amebiasis

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amebiasis: see dysentery dysentery (dĭs`əntĕr'ē)
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amebiasis [‚am·ē′bī·ə·səs]
(medicine)
A parasitic disease of humans caused by the amebaEntamoeba histolytica,characterized by clinical-pathological intestinal manifestations, including an acute dysentery phase. Also known as amebic dysentery.


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These diseases include syphilis, gonorrhea, viral hepatitis, amebiasis, giardiasis, shigellosis, and HIV/AIDS.
Among children, other specific enteric infections caused 224 deaths, followed by shigellosis (69 cases), typhoid fever (45 cases), amebiasis (31 cases), and schistosomiasis (12 cases).
 
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