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TWO CASES OF RARELY RECOGNIZED INFECTION WITH ENTAMOEBA MOSHKOVSKII

We report two cases (a 36-year-old woman and 2-year-old girl) infected with Entamoeba moshkovskii in Turkey. Entamoeba moshkovskii was identified and distinguished from the morphologically identical parasites E. histolytica and E. dispar by a nested polymerase chain reaction and restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis of the small subunit ribosomal DNA gene.

Received July 24, 2006. Accepted for publication January 15, 2007.

Acknowledgment: We thank Suzan Esin for laboratory assistance.

Financial support: This work was supported by National Institutes of Health/Fogarty International Research Collaboration Award grant #5 R03 TW006017-03.

^* Address correspondence to Mehmet Tanyuksel, Division of Medical Parasitology, Department of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Etlik, 06018 Ankara, Turkey. E-mail: mtanyuksel{at}gata.edu.tr

Authors’ addresses: Mehmet Tanyuksel, Zeynep Guclu, Engin Araz, and Ozgur Koru, Division of Medical Parasitology, Department of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Gulhane Military Medical Academy, Etlik, 06018 Ankara, Turkey, Telephone: 90-312-304-3411, E-mails: mtanyuksel{at}gata.edu.tr, zeynepguclu{at}hotmail.com, rearaz{at}gata.edu.tr, and okoru{at}gata.edu.tr. Mustafa Ulukanligil, Department of Microbiology, Harran University, Sanliurfa, Turkey, Telephone: 90-312-304-3411, E-mail: mulukan{at}harran.edu. William A. Petri Jr., Departments of Internal Medicine, Microbiology, and Pathology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908-1340, Telephone: 434-924-562, E-mail: wap3g{at}virginia.edu.

Reprint requests: Mehmet Tanyuksel, Division of Medical Parasitology, Department of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Gulhane Military Medical Academy Etlik 06018 Ankara, Turkey, Telephone: 90-312-304-411, E-mail: mtanyuksel{at}gata.edu.tr.

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