Ciliates

Question 1

Balantidium coli

Answer 1

Causes balantidiosis or balantidial dysentery

Question 2

Balantidium Coli (FH)

Answer 2

Common in pigs, non-human primates; less common in humans

Question 3

Balantidium Coli (morphology)

Answer 3

Trophozoite uniformly ciliated; cyst surrounded by wall

Question 4

Balantidium Coli (transmission)

Answer 4

fecal-oral route, usually cyst form

from pigs to humans

Question 5

Balantidium Coli (pathology)

Answer 5

Lives and multiplies in large intestine, where can cause symptoms similar to amoebic dysentery in man; usually only slight disease in swine, though severe cases have been reported.

Question 6

Balantidium Coli (transmission)

Answer 6

Transmission may occur from pigs to humans.

fecal oral route

Question 7

Ichthyophthirius multifiliis

Answer 7

Ichthyophthirius multifiliis