Steverding Dietmar
Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
Parasitology. 2025 May;152(6):563-572. doi: 10.1017/S0031182025100279.
This review article summarizes the history of amoebic dysentery (entamoebiasis) caused by . Initially, species were thought to be the most primitive extant eukaryotes, but more recent research revealed that they emerged relatively late in evolutionary history. Paleoparasitological data suggest that has been a parasite of humans since ancient times and was probably spread throughout the world by man during early human migration. By the end of the 19th century, it was established that was the etiological agent of amoebic dysentery and liver abscess. The issue over pathogenic and non-pathogenic strains of was resolved in the 1980s by the discovery of the morphologically indistinguishable harmless sister species . Being mainly a disease of tropical and subtropical low-income countries, entamoebiasis cases have increased among travellers and immigrants arriving from endemic regions in recent years.
这篇综述文章总结了由[某种变形虫]引起的阿米巴痢疾（肠阿米巴病）的历史。最初，[该变形虫物种]被认为是现存最原始的真核生物，但最近的研究表明它们在进化史上出现得相对较晚。古寄生虫学数据表明，[该变形虫]自古以来就是人类的寄生虫，可能在早期人类迁徙过程中由人类传播到世界各地。到19世纪末，已确定[该变形虫]是阿米巴痢疾和肝脓肿的病原体。20世纪80年代，通过发现形态上难以区分的无害姊妹物种[另一变形虫物种]，解决了[该变形虫]致病和非致病菌株的问题。肠阿米巴病主要是热带和亚热带低收入国家的疾病，近年来，来自流行地区的旅行者和移民中的肠阿米巴病病例有所增加。
