INTESTINAL INFLAMMATION ASSOCIATED WITH FLAGELLATES IN SNAKES

The intestines of 51 snakes with histologically diagnosed or suspected amoebiasis were reinvestigated immunohistochemically with an Entamoeb a invadens antibody. In 22 cases, trophozoites of Entamoeba invadens s tained positively in the inflamed intestinal wall, but the protozoa vi sible in the pathologically changed intestines of a further 20 snakes were negative. On the basis of light and electron microscopical findin gs, these protozoa were identified as flagellates.