inflammation of the intestines caused by Endamoeba histolytica; usually acquired by ingesting food or water contaminated with feces; characterized by severe diarrhea
Native to China, the bark of Magnolia is being researched as an agent against amoebic dysentery. 在中国,厚朴一直被用来治疗阿米巴痢疾。
Because there had not been such a clustering of dysentery in Taichung for so many years, we thought that travel to endemic areas might have been the underlying predisposing cause. 由于台中市已经多年未有众多阿米巴痢疾个案聚集之情形,因此我们认为至疫区旅游可能是此次阿米巴痢疾流行的潜在原因。