[Do hepatotropic strains of Entamoeba histolytica exist?].

Liver amoebic abscess often occur without any colitic symptoms nor any parasite detection in the colon. The localisation heterogeneity and the experimental data, associated with clinical expression suggest the existence, inside the species E. histolytica, of various strains: non pathogenic one, invasive for the intestine mucous membrane ones and invasive for liver tissue ones.