In the urine of a patient with chronic prostatitis, renal microlithiasis and acute cystitis we found the ciliate protozoa Colpoda spp., both in vegetative and cystic form. The entry point was most likely the urinary tract. Keeping in mind that only four more cases of Colpoda spp. existent in human urine have already been described, and that in the case of our patient the ciliate was present at ...

in the urine of a patient with chronic prostatitis, renal microlithiasis and acute cystitis we found the ciliate protozoa colpoda spp . , both in vegetative and cystic form. the entry point was most likely the urinary tract. keeping in mind that only four more cases of colpoda spp . existent in human urine have already been described, and that in the case of our patient the ciliate was present ...

Colpodella gonderi is the only ectoparasitic flagellate of ciliated protozoa described thus far. This investigation reveals new records of C. gonderi retrieved from soil samples in southern Scotland, UK. Of fourteen ciliates species identified in one single occasion, three of them, Colpoda steinii, Pseudoplatyophrya nana and Grossglockneria acuta, were infested with the parasite. These results ...

Recently, the problem of increasing productivity farm animals is one most important for veterinary medicine. Since “programmed” maximum by selection turned out to be excessively exposed anthropogenic and biological negative factors, result this a decrease in their productivity. Conducted toxicological, microbiological, mycological chromatographic studies organic feed additive ˮGreenat“, which i...

1. The amount of visible or long ultraviolet light (UV) required to photoreactivate Colpidium colpoda injured with known dosages of short UV (2654 A) was determined. 2. The effect of the short UV was tested by the delay in division of exposed animals compared to controls. Photoreactivation was tested by the effect of postillumination on the delay of division of treated colpidia compared to cont...

BACKGROUND The repertoire of free-living protozoa in contact lens solutions is poorly known despite the fact that such protozoa may act as direct pathogens and may harbor intra-cellular pathogens. METHODS Between 2009 and 2014, the contact lens solutions collected from patients presenting at our Ophthalmology Department for clinically suspected keratitis, were cultured on non-nutrient agar ex...

The ciliate class Colpodea provides a powerful case in which a molecular genealogy can be compared to a detailed morphological taxonomy of a microbial group. Previous analyses of the class using the small-subunit rDNA are based on sparse taxon sampling, and are therefore of limited use in comparisons with morphologically-based classifications. Taxon sampling is increased here to include all ord...

Escherichia coli O157:H7 (EcO157) associated with the 2006 spinach outbreak appears to have persisted as the organism was isolated, three months after the outbreak, from environmental samples in the produce production areas of the central coast of California. Survival in harsh environments may be linked to the inherent fitness characteristics of EcO157. This study evaluated the comparative fitn...