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No seasonality was observed in Kolkata although in the neighboring tropical country Bangladesh, a typical seasonality of <jats:italic>E. histolytica<\/jats:italic> infection was noticed.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>\n          <jats:sec>\n            <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n            <jats:p>The study indicates that the detection rate of <jats:italic>E. histolytica<\/jats:italic> infection amongst diarrhoeal patients in Kolkata is decreasing during the last two years than that of Bangladesh.<\/jats:p>\n          <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/1757-4749-2-12","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,10,6]],"date-time":"2010-10-06T18:14:26Z","timestamp":1286388866000},"update-policy":"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["Trend of Entamoeba histolytica infestation in Kolkata"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"2","author":[{"given":"Avik K","family":"Mukherjee","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Kaushik","family":"Das","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mihir K","family":"Bhattacharya","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Tomoyoshi","family":"Nozaki","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sandipan","family":"Ganguly","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2010,10,6]]},"reference":[{"key":"9762_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"110","DOI":"10.1186\/1756-0500-2-110","volume":"2","author":"AK Mukherjee","year":"2009","unstructured":"Mukherjee AK, Chowdhury P, Bhattacharya MK, Ghosh M, Rajendran K, Ganguly S: Hospital-based surveillance of enteric parasites in Kolkata. 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