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The present study is a retrospective case series analysis of patients with laboratory-confirmed amoebiasis from Western Sydney Local Health District, Australia, between years 2005 and 2016. Forty-nine patients with amoebiasis were identified, resulting in an estimated annual incidence of up to 1.1 cases per 100,000 adults. Many were born in Australia (15\/47) and India (12\/47). Three patients (3\/37) had no history of overseas travel, two others had not travelled to an endemic country, and an additional two had a very remote history of overseas travel; one died of fulminant amoebic colitis. Three patients (3\/16) were employed in the food industry and one had a history of colonic irrigation in an Australian \u2018wellness clinic\u2019. Patients had invasive amoebiasis with either liver abscess (41\/48) or colitis (7\/48), diagnosed most commonly by serology. Invasive procedures were common, including aspiration of liver abscess (28\/41), colonoscopy (11\/49), and partial hepatectomy (1\/49). Although rare, local acquisition of amoebiasis occurs in Western Sydney and contributes to significant morbidity and hospital admissions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/tropicalmed3030073","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,6,26]],"date-time":"2018-06-26T10:40:50Z","timestamp":1530009650000},"page":"73","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["A 12-Year Retrospective Study of Invasive Amoebiasis in Western Sydney: Evidence of Local Acquisition"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"3","author":[{"given":"Ana","family":"Domazetovska","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Infectious Diseases, Blacktown Hospital, Blacktown NSW 2148, Australia"},{"name":"Department of Infectious Diseases, Westmead Hospital, Westmead NSW 2145, Australia"},{"name":"Department of Microbiology, Liverpool Hospital, Liverpool NSW 2170, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-8364-9515","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rogan","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"New South Wales Health Pathology, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead Hospital, Westmead NSW 2145, Australia"},{"name":"The University of Sydney Medical School, Westmead Hospital, Westmead NSW 2145, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chandra","family":"Adhikari","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Anatomical Pathology, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead Hospital, Westmead NSW 2145, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Matthew","family":"Watts","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Infectious Diseases, Westmead Hospital, Westmead NSW 2145, Australia"},{"name":"New South Wales Health Pathology, Institute of Clinical Pathology and Medical Research, Westmead Hospital, Westmead NSW 2145, Australia"},{"name":"The University of Sydney Medical School, Westmead Hospital, Westmead NSW 2145, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Nicole","family":"Gilroy","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Infectious Diseases, Westmead Hospital, Westmead NSW 2145, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Damien","family":"Stark","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Microbiology, St. Vincent\u2019s Hospital, Darlinghurst NSW 2010, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Shobini","family":"Sivagnanam","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Infectious Diseases, Blacktown Hospital, Blacktown NSW 2148, Australia"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,6,26]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"429","DOI":"10.1007\/s11894-007-0054-8","article-title":"Amebic colitis: New insights into pathogenesis and treatment","volume":"9","author":"Bercu","year":"2007","journal-title":"Curr. 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