The Brief Case: A Rare Case of Invasive Amebiasis Requiring Emergency Subtotal Colectomy in an HIV-Positive Man

Tom Wingfield; Robert Ball; Stephen D. Woolley; Fiona Campbell; Richard M. Heath; Nicholas Beeching; Lance Turtle

doi:10.1128/jcm.01703-17

The Brief Case: A Rare Case of Invasive Amebiasis Requiring Emergency Subtotal Colectomy in an HIV-Positive Man

Tom Wingfield
, Robert Ball
, Stephen D. Woolley
, Fiona Campbell
, Richard M. Heath
, Nicholas Beeching
, Lance Turtle

University of Liverpool
Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Karolinska Institutet
Institute of Naval Medicine, Gosport

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Abstract

In April 2017, a 56-year-old HIV-positive man was transferred from another institution to our regional infectious disease unit having presented with 2 weeks of profuse, watery diarrhea accompanied by intermittent, fresh bleeding of the rectum. Symptoms had started during a 2-month vacation to Indonesia, Vietnam, and Malaysia. While on vacation, he stayed in hotels in urban areas, had no rural travel, and drank only bottled water. He reported that he was not a man who has sex with men (MSM) and preferred to discuss his further sexual history confidentially with the genitourinary medicine team. Two months prior to admission, his CD4 count was 194 cells/mm3, and while taking an antiretroviral therapy regimen consisting of tenofovir, emtricitabine, and nevirapine, his HIV RNA had been undetectable in his plasma for 3 years.

Original language	English
Article number	e01703-17
Pages (from-to)	e01703-17
Journal	Journal of Clinical Microbiology
Volume	56
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1128/jcm.01703-17
Publication status	Published - 1 Aug 2018

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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

Amebiasis
Colectomy
Colitis
Dysentery
Entamoeba histolytica
HIV
Invasive
Subtotal colectomy
Traveler’s diarrhea

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Closing The Brief Case: A Rare Case of Invasive Amebiasis Requiring Emergency Subtotal Colectomy in an HIV-Positive Man.
Wingfield, T., Ball, R., Woolley, S. D., Campbell, F., Heath, R. M., Beeching, N. & Turtle, L., 1 Aug 2018, American Society of Microbiology.
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The Brief Case: A Rare Case of Invasive Amebiasis Requiring Emergency Subtotal Colectomy in an HIV-Positive Man

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