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Balantidium coli is widely distributed in hogs, particularly in warm and temperate climates, and in monkeys in the tropics. B. coli is the only pathogenic ciliate and is the largest...
Keum KH, Suh MA, Park HJ, Lee KH, Lee GH, Choi EJ, Kim JK, Chung HL, Kim WT
KMID: 2280771
Korean J Perinatol.
2008 Mar;19(1):84-87.
Balantidium coli is the only pathogenic ciliate parasitizing humans. Balantidium coli is widely distributed in hogs, particularly in warm and temperate climates, and in monkeys in the tropics. It is...
Balantidium coli is the only largest ciliated protozoon known to infect human and nonhuman primates. Balantidiasis is a zoonotic disease and is acquired by humans via fecal-oral contact between pigs...
A 4-year-old female Barbary sheep (Ammotragus lervia)
was found dead in the Gwangju Uchi Park Zoo. The
animal had previously exhibited weakness and lethargy,
but no signs of diarrhea. The carcass was emaciated...
Researches in veterinary protozoology until the end of World War II were carried out entirely by Japanese workers such as Danagga, Yamada, Yuhoba and Isshiki. After the Korean war, investigations...
A new trichostome ciliate, Balantidium honghuensis n. sp., was isolated from the recta of Rana nigromaculata and R. limnocharis during parasite surveys in Honghu Lake, Hubei Province, central China in...