NEW YORK (360Dx) – Techlab announced on Tuesday that it has received US Food and Drug Administration 510(k) clearance for its rapid Entamoeba histolytica infection test.

E. histolyticais a protozoan parasite that can cause the intestinal disease amoebiasis. According to Techlab, the parasite is morphologically identical to the non-pathogenic species Entamoeba dispar, making diagnosis of infection difficult.