Species Entamoeba coli (Grassi, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Amoeba coli Grassi, G.B. 1879. Dei Protozoi parassiti e specialmente quelle che sono nell' uomo. Gazzetta. Medica Italiana Lombarda 39(8): 445-448.

Generic Combinations

• Entamoeba coli (Grassi, 1879). —
  Casagrandi, O.G.V. & Barbagallo-Rapisardi, P. 1895. Sull Amoeba coli (Lösch). Ricerche biologiche e cliniche. Bollettino dell'Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali n.s. 41: 5-15

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Ben Lomond (BEL), Central Arnhem (CA), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Dampierland (DL), Esperance Plains (ESP), Flinders (FLI), Jarrah Forest (JF), King (KIN), Mallee (MAL), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tasmanian Central Highlands (TCH), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Tasmanian Northern Midlands (TNM), Tasmanian Northern Slopes (TNS), Tasmanian South East (TSE), Tasmanian Southern Ranges (TSR), Tasmanian West (TWE), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT)

Ecological Descriptors

Endoparasitic (host(s): Canis familiaris Linnaeus, 1758 [CANIDAE] Domestic Dog (from faeces); Homo sapiens Linnaeus, 1758 [HOMINIDAE] Human (from gut & faeces)), parasitic.

Associated Fauna References

Bearup, A.J., Lawrence, J.J. & Heydon, G.A.M. 1949. The incidence of parasitic infections in New South Wales. Medical Journal of Australia 2: 7-10 (Homo sapiens)

Goldsmid, J.M. 1981. Intestinal parasitic infections of man in Tasmania. Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 75: 110-111 (Homo sapiens)

Johnston, T.H. 1909. Notes on Australian entozoa. No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum 7: 329-344 (Homo sapiens)

Johnston, T.H. & Cleland, J.B. 1910. Protozoal infections. Report of the Government Bureau of Microbiology 1909: 31-46 (Homo sapiens)

Jones, H.I. 1980. Intestinal parasitic infections in Western Australian Aborigines. Medical Journal of Australia 2: 375-380 (Homo sapiens)

Levitt, M.D., Quinlan, M.F & Sheiner, H.J. 1986. Liver abscess in Western Australia (1974-1983). Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery 56: 341-346 (Homo sapiens)

Mackerras, M.J. 1958. Catalogue of Australian mammals and their recorded internal parasites. Part I. Monotremes and marsupials. Part II. Eutheria. Part III. Introduced herbivora and the domestic pig. Part IV. Man. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 83: 101-160 (Homo sapiens)

McDougall, R.J., Tandy, M.W., Boreham, R.E., Stenzel, D.J. & O'Donoghue, P.J. 1993. Incidential finding of a microsporidian parasite from an AIDS patient. Journal of Clinical Microbiology 31: 436-439 (Homo sapiens)

Meloni, B.P., Thompson, R.C.A., Hopkins, R.M., Reynoldson, J.A. & Gracey, M. 1993. The prevalence of Giardia and other intestinal parasites in children, dogs and cats from Aboriginal communities in the Kimberely. Medical Journal of Australia 158: 157-159 (Homo sapiens; Canis familiaris)

Reynoldson, J.A., Behnke, J.M., Pallant, L.J., Macnish, M.G., Gilbert, F., Giles, S., Spargo, R.J. & Thompson, R.C.A. 1997. Failure of pyrantel in treatment of human hookworm infections (Ancylostoma duodenale) in the Kimberley region of North West Australia. Acta Tropica 68: 301-312 (Homo sapiens)

Stark, D., Fotedar, R., Van Hal, S., Beebe, N., Marriott, D., Ellis, J.T. & Harkness, J. 2007. Prevalence of enteric protozoa in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive and HIV-negative men who have sex with men from Sydney, Australia. American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 76: 549-552 (Homo sapiens)

Thompson, R.C.A., Meloni, B.P., Hopkins, R.M., Deplazes, P. & Reynoldson, J.A. 1993. Observations on the endo- and ectoparasites affecting dogs and cats in Aboriginal communities in the north-west of Western Australia. Australian Veterinary Journal 70: 268-270 (Canis familiaris)

Walker, J.C., Bahr, G. & Ehl, A.S. 1985. Gastrointestinal parasites in Sydney. Medical Journal of Australia 143: 480 (Homo sapiens)

Willis, H.H. 1923. A note on intestinal protozoal cysts in man at Townsville, north Queensland. Medical Journal of Australia 2: 682 (Homo sapiens)

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