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DOID:9181 - amebiasis
Disease Ontology Definition:A parasitic protozoa infectious disease that involves infection caused by the amoeba Entamoeba histolytica. Amebic invasion of the intestinal lining causes dysentery, colitis or diarrhea. The infection can also spread through the blood to the liver and, rarely, to the lungs, brain or other organs.
Synonyms: amoebiasis, chronic intestinal amebiasis, entamoebiasis,
Echinobase Genes :
Other Model Organisms: AGR, MGI, ZFIN, FlyBase, WormBase, RGD
Ontology Viewers: Disease Ontology, EMBL-EBI, OLSVis tree view, Ontobee
Parent(s):
parasitic protozoa infectious disease (is_a)