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colorectal amebiasis

Thursday 16 June 2016

Protozoa are unicellular, eukaryotic organisms. The parasitic protozoa are transmitted by insects or by the fecal-oral route and, in humans, mainly occupy the blood or intestine.

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- infections

References

- Haque R, Huston CD, Hughes M, Houpt E, Petri WA Jr. Amebiasis. N Engl J Med. 2003 Apr 17;348(16):1565-73. PMID: 12700377