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Entamoeba histolytica
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Entamoeba histolytica
[his′təlit′ikə]
a pathogenic species of ameba that causes amebic dysentery and hepatic amebiasis in humans. See also amebiasis, amebic dysentery, hepatic amebiasis.

Entamoeba histolytica
Parasitology A protozoan that normally resides in the large intestine and may, under abnormal conditions, become pathogenic, enter the mucosa, producing flask-like ulcers and amebic dysentery; it may seed to other organs–eg, lungs, brain etc. Cf Entamoeba polecki.


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Oral immunization with an attenuated vaccine strain of Salmonella typhimurium expressing the serine-rich Entameba histolytica protein induces an antiamebic immune response and protects gerbils from amebic liver abscess.
 
 
 
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