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[[Image:Ehistolytica05.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Amebiasis]] is a disease caused by the one-celled [[parasite]] [[Entamoeba Histolytica|Entamoeba histolytica]].]]

[[Image:Ehistolytica05.jpg|thumb|right|150px|[[Amebiasis]] is a disease caused by the one-celled [[parasite]] [[Entamoeba Histolytica|Entamoeba histolytica]].]]

In 2006, the ''The American Society of Tropical Medicine'' reported:

In 2006, the ''The American Society of Tropical Medicine'' reported:

{{cquote|[[Amebiasis]] is defined as the infection by Entamoeba histolytica that results in dysentery or amebic abscess. First discovered in 1875 by Fedor A. Lösch, this infectious agent is known to be common in developing areas, although local contamination cases have been described in developed countries such as [[France]] and [[Sweden]].<ref>[PREVALENCE AND SPECIES DISTRIBUTION OF E. HISTOLYTICA AND E. DISPAR IN THE VENDA REGION, LIMPOPO, SOUTH AFRICA]</ref>}}  

{{cquote|[[Amebiasis]] is defined as the infection by Entamoeba histolytica that results in dysentery or amebic abscess. First discovered in 1875 by Fedor A. Lösch, this infectious agent is known to be common in developing areas, although local contamination cases have been described in developed countries such as [[France]] and [[Sweden]].<ref>[http://www.ajtmh.org/content/75/3/565.full PREVALENCE AND SPECIES DISTRIBUTION OF E. HISTOLYTICA AND E. DISPAR IN THE VENDA REGION, LIMPOPO, SOUTH AFRICA]</ref>}}  

Amebiasis and [[proctitis]] are both illnesses associated with [[gay bowel syndrome]].<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=PubMed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=946385&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus The gay bowel syndrome: clinico-pathologic correlation in 260 cases.]</ref>   

Amebiasis and [[proctitis]] are both illnesses associated with [[gay bowel syndrome]].<ref>[http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=PubMed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=946385&ordinalpos=1&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVAbstractPlus The gay bowel syndrome: clinico-pathologic correlation in 260 cases.]</ref>