Open AccessBalantidiosis: A Rare Accidental Finding in the Urine of A Patient with Acute Renal Failure
Author(s) -
Ankit Khanduri,
Sapna Chauhan,
Iva Chandola,
BS Mahawal,
VK Kataria
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of clinical and diagnostic research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2249-782X
pISSN - 0973-709X
DOI - 10.7860/jcdr/2014/7033.4343
Subject(s) - accidental , asymptomatic , dysentery , entamoeba histolytica , urine , medicine , urinary system , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , pathology , physics , acoustics
Balantidium coli is the only ciliated protozoan which is known to infect human and nonhuman primates. Route of infection is faecal-oral route. It is actively motile and causes mostly asymptomatic infections, or it may develop dysentery which is similar to that which is caused by Entamoeba histolytica. Here, we are describing a case of an accidental finding of B.coli in the urine of a patient who presented with acute renal failure, based on its characteristic morphology and motility which were seen on light microscopy. This is the third case of Urinary Balantidiosis which has been reported from India.