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AAP Grand Rounds 1:34-35 (1999)
© 1999 American Academy of Pediatrics

INTERNATIONAL CHILD HEALTH

Parasites in Bolivian School-aged Children

Source: Esteban JG, Aguirre C, Angles R, Ash LR, and Mas-Coma S. Balantidiasis in Aymara children from the northern Bolivian Altiplano. Amer J Trop Med Hyg. 1998;59[6]:922–927.

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Balantidium coli [B. coli] is the largest protozoan and the only ciliate parasite of humans. B. coli can cause a fulminating dysentery with intestinal perforation. Pigs have a high rate of infection and are considered the main natural reservoir of B.coli which is considered an uncommon infection in humans. Only a few previous reports of epidemiologic surveys have been published, and this study is the largest ever reported .1 The authors studied human balantidiasis in children in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Karen Olness, MD, FAAP
Division of General Academic Pediatrics, Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, Cleveland, OH