Increased risk for Entamoeba histolytica infection and invasive amebiasis in HIV seropositive men who have sex with men in Taiwan.

• Main Authors: Chien-Ching Hung (Author), Dar-Der Ji (Author), Hsin-Yun Sun (Author), Ya-Tien Lee (Author), Shui-Yuan Hsu (Author), Sui-Yuan Chang (Author), Cheng-Hsin Wu (Author), Yun-Hsien Chan (Author), Chin-Fu Hsiao (Author), Wen-Chun Liu (Author), Robert Colebunders (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Incidence of Entamoeba histolytica infection and clinical manifestations and treatment response of invasive amebiasis (IA) in HIV-infected patients have rarely been investigated before. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: At the National Taiwan University Hospital, medical records of HIV-inf...