Balantidiasis: report of a fatal case with appendicular and pulmonary involvement

1 January 1984

journal article
case report
Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Vol. 78 (6) , 833-834
https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(84)90036-1

Abstract

A case of fatal balantidial infection with appendicular and pulmonary involvement in a Venezuelan farmer is reported. The clinical, post-mortem and histological features are described.

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