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- Balantidium (= Neobalantidium) (= Balantioides) coli, a large ciliated protozoan, is the only ciliate known to be capable of infecting humans. It is often associated with swine, the primary reservoir host.
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Balantidium (= Neobalantidium) (= Balantioides) coli, a large ciliated protozoan, is the only ciliate known to be capable of infecting humans. It is often associated with swine, the primary reservoir host.
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Balantidium coli is a parasitic species of ciliate alveolates that causes the disease balantidiasis. [1] [2] It is the only member of the ciliate phylum known to be pathogenic to humans. [1] [2]
Balantidium coli is an intestinal parasite that causes the infection balantidiasis. Symptoms can include diarrhea and abdominal pain. You can get balantidiasis by consuming food or water contaminated with infective feces.
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Aug 25, 2023 · Balantidiasis (also known as balantidiosis) is defined as large-intestinal infection with Balantidium coli, which is a ciliated protozoan (and the largest protozoan that infects humans). B...
May 14, 2021 · The current and fundamental trend, which cannot be overlooked by researchers, is to always try to prioritize molecular diagnosis to confirm possible infections in different host species by B. coli, since the Phylum ciliophora has several genera and similar species in its morphology, which can be misdiagnosed when using only microscopic parasitol...
- Alynne Da Silva Barbosa
- 10.4103/tp.tp_5_21
- 2021
- Trop Parasitol. 2021 Jan-Jun; 11(1): 64-67.
Balantioides coli (=Balantidium coli) is the only ciliate that parasitizes humans. Pigs are the main reservoir. Other species, as camels, cattle, donkey, sheep and goat have been also proposed as reservoirs for human infections.
Balantidiasis is an infectious disease, rare in western countries. It is caused by Balantidium coli, a single celled parasite (ciliate protozoan) that is usually associated with intestinal infection in areas associated with pig rearing.
