Entamoeba histolytica infections in flight personnel of an international airline

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
G WeberP G Sargeaunt

Abstract

A cohort of 99 subjects, members of the flight staff of Lufthansa German airlines, all infected with Entamoeba histolytica, were followed over a period of 2.5 years to monitor their clinical and parasitological status. All but 4 of the subjects were infected with non-pathogenic zymodemes of E. histolytica and had negative amoebic serology, and most were clinically well. One male heterosexual carrying a pathogenic zymodeme was found, despite massive treatment regimes, to carry the infection persistently for 12 months. Most non-pathogenic infections were left untreated.

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