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Tipo de Documento: Artigo
Título: Human amebiasis: breaking the paradigm?
Autor(es): Ximénez, Cecilia
Cerritos, Rene
Rojas, Liliana
Dolabella, Silvio
Morán, Patricia
Shibayama, Mineko
González, Enrique
Valadez, Alicia
Hernández, Eric
Valenzuela, Olivia
Limón, Angélica
Partida, Oswaldo
Silva, Edwards F.
Data do documento: Mar-2010
Resumo: For over 30 years it has been established that the Entamoeba histolytica protozoan included two biologically and genetically different species, one with a pathogenic phenotype called E. histolytica and the other with a non-pathogenic phenotype called Entamoeba dispar. Both of these amoebae species can infect humans. E. histolytica has been considered as a potential pathogen that can cause serious damage to the large intestine (colitis, dysentery) and other extraintestinal organs, mainly the liver (amebic liver abscess), whereas E. dispar is a species that interacts with humans in a commensal relationship, causing no symptoms or any tissue damage. This paradigm, however, should be reconsidered or re-evaluated. In the present work, we report the detection and genotyping of E. dispar sequences of DNA obtained from patients with amebic liver abscesses, including the genotyping of an isolate obtained from a Brazilian patient with a clinical diagnosis of intestinal amebiasis that was previously characterized as an E. dispar species. The genetic diversity and phylogenetic analysis performed by our group has shown the existence of several different genotypes of E. dispar that can be associated to, or be potentiality responsible for intestinal or liver tissue damage, similar to that observed with E. histolytica.
Palavras-chave: Human amebiasis
E. histolytica
E. dispar
Genetic diversity
Phylogeny
ISSN: 1660-4601
Parte de : International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
Idioma: eng
Instituição/Editora: MDPI
Citação: XIMÉNEZ, C. et al. Human amebiasis: breaking the paradigm? International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, Basel, v. 7, n. 3, p. 1105-1120, mar. 2010. Disponível em: https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/7/3/1105/pdf?version=1403137780. Acesso em: 16 maio 2025.
Licença: Creative Commons Atribuição 3.0 Não Adaptada (CC BY 3.0)
URI: https://ri.ufs.br/jspui/handle/riufs/22087
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