Amoebic dysentery

Japanese: amoebic dysentery(英語表記)amoebicdysentery
Amoebic dysentery

...There is also a disease in children that is thought to be a Shigella infection called dysentery, but for more information on this, please see the entry for dysentery.
[Amoebic dysentery]
The pathogen is Entamoeba histolytica (a type of protozoan belonging to the root pods), whose mature cysts are ingested with food and drink, causing infection in humans. The vegetative form (20-30 μm in length) emerges from a spherical cyst (6-20 μm in diameter) in the small intestine, moves in an amoeba-like manner, invades the mucous membrane of the large intestine, forms an ulcer, and causes the discharge of bloody mucus in the stool.

*Some of the terminology that refers to "amoebic dysentery" is listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

… なお小児の赤痢菌感染症とみられる病気に疫痢があるが,これについては〈疫痢〉の項を参照されたい。
[アメーバ赤痢amoebic dysentery]
 赤痢アメーバEntamoeba histolytica(根足虫類に属する原虫の1種)が病原体で,その成熟囊子が飲食物とともに取り込まれ,ヒトへの感染が起こる。小腸内で球状の囊子cyst(径6~20μm)から出た栄養型vegetative form(長さ20~30μm)がアメーバ運動をしながら大腸の粘膜に侵入し,潰瘍を形成し,粘血便を排出する。…

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