A wide variety of intestinal parasites have been recovered from stools of homosexuals. Amoebiasis has been reported as a common cause of diarrhoea in homosexuals. Its aetiologic agent, Entamoeba histotytics, is frequently found to be the cause of diarrhoea and crampy abdominal pain in travellers who have returned from areas where sanitary conditions are poor."<ref>[http://www.e-mjm.org/1985/v40n4/gay-men-bowel-syndrome.pdf ''Gay men bowel syndrome: A report of parasitic infection in homosexual patients'' Med. J. Malaysia Vol. 40 No. 4 1985</ref>}} | A wide variety of intestinal parasites have been recovered from stools of homosexuals. Amoebiasis has been reported as a common cause of diarrhoea in homosexuals. Its aetiologic agent, Entamoeba histotytics, is frequently found to be the cause of diarrhoea and crampy abdominal pain in travellers who have returned from areas where sanitary conditions are poor."<ref>[http://www.e-mjm.org/1985/v40n4/gay-men-bowel-syndrome.pdf ''Gay men bowel syndrome: A report of parasitic infection in homosexual patients'' Med. J. Malaysia Vol. 40 No. 4 1985</ref>}} |