Closing The Brief Case: A Rare Case of Invasive Amebiasis Requiring Emergency Subtotal Colectomy in an HIV-Positive Man

Tom Wingfield; Robert Ball; Stephen D Woolley; Fiona Campbell; Richard M Heath; Nick J Beeching; Lance Turtle

doi:10.1128/JCM.01704-17

Closing The Brief Case: A Rare Case of Invasive Amebiasis Requiring Emergency Subtotal Colectomy in an HIV-Positive Man

J Clin Microbiol. 2018 Jul 26;56(8):e01704-17. doi: 10.1128/JCM.01704-17. Print 2018 Aug.

Authors

Tom Wingfield^{1

2

3

4}, Robert Ball^#², Stephen D Woolley^#^{2

5}, Fiona Campbell^#⁶, Richard M Heath⁷, Nick J Beeching^{2

4

8}, Lance Turtle^{9

2

8}

Affiliations

¹ Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology, and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
² Tropical and Infectious Disease Unit, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
³ Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
⁴ Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
⁵ Institute of Naval Medicine, Alverstoke, Hampshire, United Kingdom.
⁶ Department of Cellular Pathology, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
⁷ Department of Colorectal Surgery, Royal Liverpool University Hospital, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
⁸ NIHR Health Protection Research Unit for Emerging and Zoonotic Infections, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
⁹ Department of Clinical Infection, Microbiology, and Immunology, Institute of Infection and Global Health, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom lance.turtle@liverpool.ac.uk.

^# Contributed equally.

No abstract available

Keywords: Entamoeba histolytica; HIV; amebiasis; colectomy; colitis; dysentery; invasive; subtotal colectomy; traveler's diarrhea.

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MeSH terms

Amebiasis*
Colectomy
Dysentery, Amebic / surgery*
HIV Infections*
Humans
Male