Urinary balantidiasis: A rare incidental finding in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Balantidiasis is a rare zoonotic disease in humans. Balantidium coli is the causative ciliated protozoan. We present a case of urinary balantidiasis in a patient having chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who was on steroids for a long time. He has no symptoms of bowel or urinary involvemen...

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Autores principales: Kaur, Sukhpreet, Gupta, Avinash
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4995878/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27756993
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.188063
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description Balantidiasis is a rare zoonotic disease in humans. Balantidium coli is the causative ciliated protozoan. We present a case of urinary balantidiasis in a patient having chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who was on steroids for a long time. He has no symptoms of bowel or urinary involvement. We are reporting this case because of its rarity in human urine and also for future references.
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spelling pubmed-49958782016-10-18 Urinary balantidiasis: A rare incidental finding in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Kaur, Sukhpreet Gupta, Avinash J Cytol Case Report Balantidiasis is a rare zoonotic disease in humans. Balantidium coli is the causative ciliated protozoan. We present a case of urinary balantidiasis in a patient having chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) who was on steroids for a long time. He has no symptoms of bowel or urinary involvement. We are reporting this case because of its rarity in human urine and also for future references. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC4995878/ /pubmed/27756993 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.188063 Text en Copyright: © 2016 Journal of Cytology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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title_full Urinary balantidiasis: A rare incidental finding in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
title_fullStr Urinary balantidiasis: A rare incidental finding in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
title_full_unstemmed Urinary balantidiasis: A rare incidental finding in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
title_short Urinary balantidiasis: A rare incidental finding in a patient with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4995878/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0970-9371.188063
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