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Balantidium
Sign in to saveBalantidium is a genus of ciliates. It contains the parasitic species Balantidium coli, the only known cause of balantidiasis.
Species
GENUS
- KingdomChromista
- PhylumCiliophora
- ClassHeterotrichea
- OrderHeterotrichida
- FamilyBalantidiidae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 52
- With media
- 6
- Family
- Balantidiidae
- Collections
- USNM, YPM, NHMUK
- Recorded in
- United States, Nicaragua, Australia, Tuvalu
Research
527 papers- Balantidium coli in domestic animals: An emerging protozoan pathogen of zoonotic significance.Acta tropica · 2020
- Unveiling Balantidium coli : A rare protozoan causing a series of cases of dysentery in Rajasthan and review of literature.Journal of postgraduate medicine · 2024
- Dysentery Caused by Balantidium coli in China.The Korean journal of parasitology · 2020
- Current world status of Balantidium coli.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2008
- Balantioides coli.Research in veterinary science · 2021
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Wikidata facts
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Balantidiidae
- Image
- Balantidium coli wet mount.jpg
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Encyclopedic overview
5 sectionsContents
- History
- Transcriptomics
- Taxonomy
- Species
- References
Balantidium is a genus of ciliates. It contains the parasitic species Balantidium coli, the only known cause of balantidiasis.
==History== The first-described species of Balantidium, B. entozoon, was described in 1838 by Ehrenberg as a member of the genus Bursaria. Balantidium coli observed in patients with dysentery was originally described as Paramecium coli by Malmstein in 1857. In 1858, Edouard Claparède and Johannes Lachmann created the genus Balantidium and reclassified B. entozoon as its type species. Stein in 1863, reclassified Paramecium coli into the genus Balantidium.
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