Amoebic dysentery is a bacterial infectious disease of the intestine caused by the pathogen Entamoeba histolytica and is widespread worldwide. However, it occurs mainly in the tropics and subtropics and is transmitted mainly through contaminated drinking water and food.
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The pathogens live in the food pulp of the human colon and reproduce asexually by cell division. Symptoms such as fever and headache, nausea as well as bloody-mucous diarrhea and crampy abdominal pain, up to fatal organ infestation, can occur.
Therapy: Various antibiotics are available for a one to two week treatment.
Size of pathogen: 50 µm
Incubation time: 1 - 7 days
Probability of death: up to 15
Annual infections: 50 million
Evidence since: 1903 Was this article useful for you? > Then please press the LOB thumb now!
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