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A case of neonatal amoebiasis with after-birth vomiting and bloody stool
Jimin Kahng, So-Young Kim
Clin Exp Pediatr. 2007;50(12):1257-1260.   Published online December 15, 2007
E. histolytica has a simple life cycle with two stages: an infective cyst and an invasive trophozoite. It lives on humans as its host. Its infection occurs through the ingestion of the cyst form, and the disease begins when the trophozoite, converted at the small intestine, adheres to colonic epithelial cells with a latent period of two days to four...
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