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Yoke Chen Poon¹, Chiaw Yee Choy^{2

3}, Manish M Bundele⁴, Sapna P Sadarangani^{5

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Affiliations

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
² Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
³ National Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore.
⁴ Department of Pathology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
⁵ Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore sapna_sadarangani@ttsh.com.sg.
⁶ Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, National Technological University, Singapore.

Editorial

Yoke Chen Poon et al. J Clin Microbiol. 2020.

. 2020 Apr 23;58(5):e00069-19.

doi: 10.1128/JCM.00069-19. Print 2020 Apr 23.

Yoke Chen Poon¹, Chiaw Yee Choy^{2

3}, Manish M Bundele⁴, Sapna P Sadarangani^{5

3

6}

¹ Department of Internal Medicine, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
² Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
³ National Centre for Infectious Diseases, Singapore.
⁴ Department of Pathology, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore.
⁵ Department of Infectious Diseases, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Singapore sapna_sadarangani@ttsh.com.sg.
⁶ Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, National Technological University, Singapore.

No abstract available

Keywords: amebiasis; histopathology.

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