Over the past few decades, nucleic acid-based methods have been developed for the
diagnosis of intestinal parasitic infections. Advantages of nucleic acid-based methods are …

Balantidium coli (B. coli) is an emerging ciliated protozoan parasite of zoonotic importance
which causes a disease balantidiasis in a variety of host species including pigs, camels …

Balantioides coli (= Balantidium coli) is the only ciliate that parasitizes humans. Pigs are the
main reservoir. Other species, as camels, cattle, donkey, sheep and goat have been also …

Simple Summary Enteropathogenic viruses, such as hepatitis E virus, and diarrhoeagenic
protists have been frequently reported in swine and can infect a wide range of mammals …

Balantidiasis is considered a neglected zoonotic disease with pigs serving as reservoir
hosts. However, Balantidium coli has been recorded in many other mammalian species …

The species Balantidium coli is the only ciliate that parasitizes humans. It has been
described in other primates, and it has been proposed that the species B. suis from pigs and …

Emerging infectious diseases are frequently zoonotic, often originating in wildlife, but enteric
protozoa are considered relatively minor contributors. Opinions regarding whether …

Trichostome ciliates are among the most conspicuous protists in the gastrointestinal tract of
a large variety of vertebrates. However, little is still known about phylogeny of the …

Numerous protist species are shared between humans and pigs. Among those, Giardia
duodenalis, Cryptosporidium spp. and Balantioides coli have a clear public and animal …

Domestic camels (Camelus bactrianus, the Bactrian camel; and Camelus dromedarius, the
dromedary) are pseudo-ruminant herbivores kept as livestock in rural, inhospitable regions …