BACKGROUND Amoebic liver abscess is the most common extra intestinal manifestation of amoebiasis in tropical countries. It usually presents with right hypochondrial pain, fever and anorexia. Amoebic liver abscess has gained clinical significance due to the wide variety of clinical presentations which can cause diagnostic dilemmas and high mortality in untreated cases. CASE PRESENTATION We rep...

To cite: Toh Yoon EW, Sumii M. BMJ Case Rep Published online: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/bcr-2016218570 DESCRIPTION A previously healthy Japanese man aged 67 years was admitted into our hospital after presenting with fever, abdominal pain and watery diarrhoea (occasionally bloody) for 2 weeks. At presentation, he had a fever of 38.9°C and diffuse abdominal tenderness. His white...

Naegleria fowleri (N fowleri), the freshwater amoeba known to cause primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM), is historically found in southern United States and Central America. Increased incidence of this rare, deadly, often misdiagnosed illness northern states causes concern that N expanding northward due climate change, posing a greater threat human health new regions where PAM has not yet...

A 28 year old woman with a history of a dysenteric illness and documented Campylobacter infection presented with amoebic psoas and liver abscesses. A review of the literature of the last 20 years did not yield any reports of an amoebic psoas abscess.

The rapid growth in the human population has led to an increased requirement for readily available food sources. aquaculture industry is a fundamental source maintaining supplies; however, it subjected mounting pressures meet supply demands. Thus, limiting factors that negatively impact cultivation of farmed aquatic organisms essential. Gill disease increasing area concern, resulting substantia...

Challenge models generating gill lesions typical for columnaris disease were developed for the fry of both Common Carp Cyprinus carpio and Rainbow Trout Oncorhynchus mykiss by means of an immersion challenge and Flavobacterium columnare field isolates were characterized regarding virulence. Carp inoculated with highly virulent isolates revealed diffuse, whitish discoloration of the gills affect...

A Clinical Study of Amoebic Dysentery and Its Homoeopathic Management, Sri Ganganagar, Rajasthan, India. Background: To study the clinical presentation of amoebic dysentery and to study the results of Homeopathic management and treatment of amoebic dysentery. To assess the influence of miasm in the case of Amoebic Dysentery. Methodology: Thirty out-patients with clinically confirmed symptomatic...

We describe a case of brainstem inflammation in a young man which at first defied diagnosis. However, after his death, and notwithstanding our inability to find a cause at autopsy, we did not give up. After sending paraffin blocks to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, they suggested the diagnosis of Balamuthia (amoebic) infection.