Morbidity due to Schistosoma mansoni - Entamoeba histolytica coinfection in hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) Morbidade em hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) devido à co-infecção Schistosoma mansoni - Entamoeba histolytica

• Published in: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
• Main Authors: Silvio Santana Dolabella, Paulo Marcos Zech Coelho, Izabela Torquetti Borçari, Nelson Azevedo Santos Teixeira Mello, Zilton de Araújo Andrade, Edward Felix Silva
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical (SBMT) 2007
• Subjects: Entamoeba histolytica; Schistosoma mansoni; Co-infecção; Morbidade; Mortalidade; Coinfection; Morbidity; Mortality; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Arctic; The Portal
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/S0037-86822007000200005; https://doaj.org/article/7864c85e26cd4b8584e6fc3e895060e3

Data on Schistosoma mansoni-Entamoeba histolytica coinfection are scarce in the literature. In the present study, hamsters that had been infected for 70 days with Schistosoma mansoni (LE strain) were inoculated via the portal vein with two strains of trophozoites of Entamoeba histolytica: ICB-EGG (h...