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- Title
Oral Amoebiasis: The Role of Entamoeba Gingivalis in Periodontal Disease.
- Authors
Lyons, Trevor; Scholten, Th.; Palmer, J. C.; Stanfield, E.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the role of entamoeba gingivalis in periodontal disease, oral amoebiasis. Entamoeba gingivalis is regarded by dentists and parasitologists as a nonpathogenic organism of no importance in the causation of periodontal or other disease and even beneficial as a scavenger of cellular debris and bacteria. It has also been considered potentially pathogenic because the parasite has been seen to ingest both erythrocytes and leucocytes in addition to the nuclei of leucocytes. Their partly digested remains are seen to fill the body of the amoeba.
- Subjects
AMEBIASIS; PROTOZOAN diseases; ENTAMOEBA gingivalis; PERIODONTAL disease; PARASITES; KILLER cells; LEUCOCYTES; BLOOD cells; ERYTHROCYTES
- Publication
Quintessence International, 1983, Vol 14, Issue 12, p1246
- ISSN
0033-6572
- Publication type
Article