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Conflicts of interest: The author has no conflicts of interest.
Search strategy and selection criteria: References for this article were identified through searches of PubMed, by use of the search terms “amebiasis,” “Entamoeba histolytica,” “Entamoeba dispar,” “Entamoeba moshkovskii,” “Entamoeba bangladeshi,” “diagnosis,” “molecular tools,” and combinations of these terms. The search was mostly limited to English language articles that were published up to December 2014.
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