Abstract
Summary The available data on the incidence of amebiasis in children in the northern states and the recent evidence of amebic infection in and about Chicago warrant the attention of the medical profession to the problem of latent amebic infection in childhood. In the past few years the symptomatology and pathology in such infections in adults have been repeatedly stressed, especially by Craig. From the cases cited in this report it is apparent that children infected with Endameba histolytica may likewise manifest obscure and unexplained gastrointestinal symptoms which at times may lead to faulty diagnoses of acute or chronic appendicitis and other diseases of the alimentary tract. Careful and repeated examinations for parasites in the stools of children exhibiting vague abdominal complaints should be undertaken whenever possible.
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