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Balantidium coli - Coggle Diagram
Balantidium coli
Lab diagnosis
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Microscopy -wetmount 
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Culture - Diphasic medium,polyxenic media
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Molecular methods- PCR, ELISA
Treatment - tetracycline, Metronidazole
Life cycle
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Pigs only the natural host,humans are
Accidential host
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Morphology
Trophozoite
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Posterior is got opening,it is anal opening
Two nuclei
Macro nucleous
Kidney bean shape
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Two contractilevacuole, one food vaculoe
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Cyst
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Both micro ¯o nucleous, 2 contractile vaculoe, present
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Pathogenesis
Cause intestinal ulcers
It was round shape, sometimes
Irregular shape
*Also pus filled structure
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Max cause the vomiting,nausea, dysenteric stool
Discovery:
Malmsten in 1857 from patient,
Who are suffered from dysentery stool