of balantidiasis patients. Balantidiasis can be treated with tetracycline, metronidazole or iodoquinol. The first study to generate balantidiasis in humans...
pathogenic to humans is Balantidium coli, which causes the disease balantidiasis. It is not pathogenic to the domestic pig, the primary reservoir of...
contains the parasitic species Balantidium coli, the only known cause of balantidiasis. The first-described species of Balantidium, B. entozoon, was described...
and Apicomplexa. Balantidium coli (Balantidiasis) is an example of a member of the phylum Ciliophora. Balantidiasis is the only ciliate known to be capable...
such as dysentery caused by an amoeba, malaria (a plasmodium), and balantidiasis (a ciliate).[citation needed] Since tetracycline is absorbed into bone...
initiating a new cycle. Balantidium coli is the causative agent of balantidiasis. In the apicomplexan life cycle the trophozoite undergoes schizogony...
species have worldwide distribution) tick bites, e.g. Ixodes scapularis Balantidiasis Balantidium coli intestinal mucosa, may become invasive in some patients...
frequent in subtropical and temperate climates. The medical condition balantidiasis is particularly prevalent where poor hygiene and undernourishment weaken...
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