Intestinal infection with multiple parasites including Balantidium coli
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Balantidium 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...
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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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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Health Renaissance
سال: 1970
ISSN: 1994-7208
DOI: 10.3126/hren.v9i1.4362