Clinical case of amoebic liver and pleuropulmonary abscess in a patient with chronic hepatitis B in Cotonou

Amoebiasis is the 3rd largest parasitic cause of death in the world. Endemic in the hot and humid regions of the globe, it remains a cosmopolitan af ection. Pleuropulmonary involvement is the 2nd most extraintestinal localization of amoebiasis after hepatic localization. We report a clinical case of amoebiasis with hepatic and pleuropulmonary involvement. The dia gnosis was made by amoebic imag ing and serology. The patient was found to have hepatitis B surface antigen on this occasion. The clinical course was favourable under treatment with metronidazole and needle puncture-aspiration of the pus. The as sociation of extra-intestinal amoebiasis and hepatitis B is not com mon. It was therefore a question of see ing if there could be a link between these two af ections.