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Some Observations on Balantidium Coli and Entamœba Histolytica of Macaques
parts of salt solution. But when faeces from the monkey Silenus (Macacus) rhesus, which are invariably crammed with blastocystis, are inoculated into the above medium and incubated at 37?C.?the optimum temperature for growth of most of the intestinal protozoa of warm-blooded hosts?the fungus develops with very great rapidity, with consequent destruction of any Balantidium coli which may be pres...
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A 28-year-old man was hospitalized for a dysenteric syndrome that had developed during the previous days. Physical examination revealed abdominal pains, fever, vomiting and more than ten liquid stools per day. Fresh stool examination showed numerous mobile ciliated trophozoites of Balantidium coli. The patient reported having been on a hike the previous weekend during which he had drunk water t...
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By LAL MOHAN BANIK, Assistant Medical Officer, Teok Tea Estate, Assam A woman, aged 60 years, was admitted into hospital complaining of abdominal discomfort and passage of loose stools containing blood and mucus. The *tool on naked-eye examination was semi-formed, clay-coloured and contained blood and mucus. Under the low power of the microscope a, number (about 50 per field) of oval-shaped mob...
متن کاملBalantidium coli-induced pulmonary haemorrhage with iron deficiency.
BACKGROUND Balantidium coli, a ciliated protozoan parasite that infects primates and pigs, and is the largest protozoan to infect humans, is a well-known cause of diarrhoea and dysentery in humans. Extra-intestinal disease is uncommon, however. OBJECTIVE We describe a case of lung involvement, with severe pulmonary haemorrhage resulting in iron deficiency anaemia and respiratory failure, of a...
متن کاملThe Occurrence of Balantidium Coli in the Fæces of an Indian
In the Punjab it is very rarely seen in the domesticated state. It is also possible that this ciliate is not a common inhabitant of the intestine of the Indian pig, as it could not be found in the faeces of three pigs examined from near Kasauli, Punjab. I have also been unable to find it in the stools of six monkeys. Bentham (1920) recorded its presence in large numbers in association with Enta...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical Case Reports
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2165-7920
DOI: 10.4172/2165-7920.1000i107