[Intestinal amoebiasis in Zaire children (author's transl)].

A study of 385 cases of acute intestinal amoebiasis observed from 1960 to 1978 in the clinic of pediatrics of Kinshasa university. The epidemiologic, diagnostic aspects and the evolution are considered. The disease is responsible for 1,6 p. 100 of the admissions in the clinic of pediatrics for the considered period, with most cases (75 p. 100) in children under six years. Diagnosis, easily suspected if a dysenteric syndrome is obvious, is then confirmed by the detection of hematophagous amoebas in the stools. In children affected by malnutrition, incidence of complications and a lethal rate are both high.