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Balantidium coli
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Balantidium coli
Life Cycle
- direct with 2 stages
- Trophozoite
- Ciliated
- In host
- Create lesions by multiplication in intestine
- Found in faeces
- Cyst
- Infective stage in environment
- Found in faeces
Clinical Signs
- Balantidiasis
- Incubation Period: 4-5 days
- Ulcers in colon may penetrate submucosa
- Flask- shaped ulcers and secondary bacterial infection
- Us. results in dysentery
- Acute diarrhea
- weight loss
- vomiting
- Colic
- Severe pain in abdomen caused by wind or obstruction of intestines
- Weakness
- Poor growth
- Balantidiasis
Diagnosis
- Examination of faeces
- Loose stool contain trophozoites
- Formed/ constipated stool contains cysts
- Trophozoites
- Lgest protozoa found in faeces
- Up to 200 * 150 micrometers
- Cilia fuzzy appearance
- Not infective
- Macronucleus
- Micronucleus
- Contractile vacuole
- Cystostome
- Slow, rotary motion
- Cysts
- Distinctive wall, spherical
- Kidney shaped macronucleus
- Average diameter 55 micrometer
- Hard stool
- Infective
- Examination of faeces
Treatment
- Diiodohydroxyquin
- Metronidazole (Flagyl)
- 30 mg/kg for SID for 5dys PO
- Oxytetracycline
- Most effective and common: 10 dys
Control
- Improve sanitation/ plumbing/ personal hygiene
- Keep pig habitat and waste separate from human housing
- Cysts resistant: survive for weeks outside
- Killed by household disinfectants
- Boil drinking water
- Treat asymptomatic carriers
Informações
- Descrição
- Mind Map on Balantidium coli, created by maryhadalillamb on 24/03/2016.
- Criado por
- Mary Walcott
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