SUMMARY This Practical Guidance for Clinical Microbiology document on the laboratory
diagnosis of parasites from the gastrointestinal tract provides practical information for the …

Trichomonas vaginalis, a parasitic protozoan, is the etiologic agent of trichomoniasis, a
sexually transmitted disease (STD) of worldwide importance. Trichomoniasis is the most …

Clinical microbiology laboratories need to communicate results of antibacterial susceptibility
testing to prescribers. Sophisticated prescribers who are knowledgeable of the …

The genus Entamoeba contains many species, six of which (Entamoeba histolytica,
Entamoeba dispar, Entamoeba moshkovskii, Entamoeba polecki, Entamoeba coli, and …

Cultivation of luminal protistan parasites has a long history. In this review we discuss the
methods and media that are most widely used for the establishment and maintenance of the …

Ultrastructural analysis of Entamoeba histolytica reveals that this intestinal human pathogen
lacks recognizable mitochondria, but the presence in its genome of genes encoding proteins …

Entamoeba histolytica, the causative agent of human amoebiasis remains a significant
cause of morbidity and mortality in developing countries and is responsible for up to 100,000 …

Eighty‐seven isolates of amebae assigned to the genus Entamoeba have been studied by
riboprinting (restriction enzyme polymorphism analysis of polymerase chain reaction …

This study evaluated the anti-giardial activity of chloroform, methanol and water extracts of
12 medicinal plants (39 extracts), commonly used as self medication by AIDS patients in …

Trichomonads are anaerobic flagellated protists that, based on analyses of ribosomal RNA
sequences, represent one of the earliest branching lineages among the eukaryotes. The …