Tag: dysentery

Amoebiasis is a parasitic infection caused by intestinal protozoan Entamoeba histolytica. The transmission is fecal-oral (hands, water and food contaminated with feces containing amoebic cysts). Usually, ingested cysts release in the intestine of non-pathogenic amoebae and 90% of carriers are asymptomatic. In a small number of people infected, pathogenic amoebae penetrate the mucous colon: the…