Extensive Cutaneous Burn Complicated by Severe Necrotizing Amebic Enterocolitis

Pathogenic Factors Resulting in Severe Amebic Disease

Thomas W. Panke U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas 78234

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David K. Teegarden U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas 78234

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Thomas J. Lescher U.S. Army Institute of Surgical Research, Brooke Army Medical Center, Fort Sam Houston, Texas 78234

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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4269/ajtmh.1978.27.766
Volume/Issue:
Volume 27: Issue 4
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766–769
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A 59-yr-old Mexican-American man developed fatal necrotizing amebic enterocolitis following an extensive cutaneous thermal injury. Those factors in the severely burned patient which predispose to amebic disease are discussed.

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Copyright © 1978 by The American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 1978
Accepted:
17 Dec 1977
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Published Online:
Jul 1978
Cover The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Print ISSN:
0002-9637
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