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To the Editor: The patient described in Case Record 31-1998 (Oct. 15 issue),¹ an eight-year-old boy with bronchiectasis, was born in El Salvador. Examination of stool specimens showed ova of Ascaris lumbricoides and cysts of Entamoeba coli. Ent. coli does not usually invade host tissues and usually can be recovered in the feces of people without symptoms. Ent. histolytica is the only pathogenic ameba of the genus entamoeba; it causes ulcers in the large intestine and can subsequently invade the liver and other tissues (mainly the lungs and the central nervous system). In the differential diagnosis, we would have discarded . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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