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Persistence of amoebiasis in northern Sri Lanka – a public health failure

Author(s) -

Selvam Kannathasan,

N. R. De Silva,

T. Kumanan‬

Publication year - 2017

Publication title -

journal of the ceylon college of physicians

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

ISSN - 2448-9514

DOI - 10.4038/jccp.v48i2.7829

Subject(s) - ceylon , medicine , sri lanka , audience measurement , medical journal , public health , family medicine , multidisciplinary approach , alternative medicine , optometry , nursing , socioeconomics , political science , pathology , law , computer science , programming language , sociology , tanzania

Corresponding author: Kumanan T E-mail: mtkumanan@yahoo.com 1 Department of Parasitology, University of Jaffna, Sri Lanka. 2 Department of Parasitology, University of Kelaniya,Sri Lanka. 3 Department of Medicine, University of Jaffna,Sri Lanka. The Ceylon Medical Journal recently published a case report of acute fulminant necrotizing colitis, a deadly complication of amoebiasis caused by Entamoeba histolytica, from northern Sri Lanka. Another recent paper reported 346 molecular and immunologically confirmed patients with amoebic liver abscess, all seen at a single centre (Teaching Hospital, Jaffna) within a period of 3 years.

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