TABLE 1.

Numbers of mono- and mixed infections with Entamoeba spp. in 372 samples based on a PCR-RLHB protocol targeting the small-subunit rRNA gene

Infecting organism(s)	No. (%) of samples
Organisms in monoinfections	109 (29.3)
E. histolytica	30 (8.1)
E. hartmanni	36 (9.7)
E. coli	12 (3.2)
E. polecki-like organisms	31 (8.3)
Organisms in mixed infections	193 (51.9)
E. histolytica + E. hartmanni	27 (7.3)
E. histolytica + E. coli	1 (0.3)
E. histolytica + E. polecki-like organisms	30 (8.1)
E. hartmanni + E. coli	28 (7.5)
E. hartmanni + E. polecki-like organisms	28 (7.5)
E. coli + E. polecki-like organisms	2 (0.5)
E. histolytica + E. coli + E. polecki-like organisms	3 (0.8)
E. histolytica + E. hartmanni + E. coli	3 (0.8)
E. histolytica + E. hartmanni + E. polecki-like organisms	36 (9.7)
E. dispar + E. hartmanni + E. coli	4 (1.1)
E. dispar + E. hartmanni + E. polecki-like organisms	3 (0.8)
E. moshkovskii + E. hartmanni + E. coli	2 (0.5)
E. moskovskii + E. hartmanni + E. polecki-like organisms	1 (0.3)
E. hartmanni + E. coli + E. polecki-like organisms	15 (4.0)
E. histolytica + E. hartmanni + E. coli + E. polecki-like organisms	4 (1.1)
E. dispar + E. hartmanni + E. coli + E. polecki-like organisms	2 (0.5)
E. moshkovskii + E. hartmanni + E. coli + E. polecki-like organisms	4 (1.1)
Unidentified Entamoeba organisms	70 (18.9)