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January 2014
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28 Reads
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January 2014
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Within the last decades hamadryas baboons have been extensively used as experimental models for a different type of studies in the biomedical research centers. Balantidium coli a protozoan parasite is commonly infects human and animals such as primates worldwide. Whoever, investigating zoonotic diseases and common infections of these non-human primates to man has a medical significance. This protozoa is usually occurs in the intestinal and it is well known cause of intestinal infection and dysentery in primates. Whoever, a case of balantidiasis complicated by severe pulmonary infection and resulting in iron deficiency anemia has not, to our knowledge, been described previously in baboons in the literature. We present a case of lung involvement and iron deficiency in baboons from Saudi Arabia. This case underlines that Balantidium coli should also be considered as a possible cause of extra-intestinal disorders and considered as part of the differential diagnosis of respiratory disorders in baboons in addition to the dysenteric form.
... During infections by B. coli, changes in haematological parameters have been observed. Several studies in infected animals (pigs, sheep, goats, chimpanzees, baboons) and humans reported anaemia (including decrease in the values of haemoglobin, packet cell volume and on erythrocyte count), eosinophil count increase and hypoalbuminemia (Al-tayib, 2014;Bauri et al., 2012;Effanga and Imalele, 2018;Jamil et al., 2015;Sivajothi et al., 2018). However, increased values of haemoglobin has been reported in donkeys (Khan et al., 2013). ...
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Balantioides coli
January 2014