在人类尿液中检测到纤毛原生动物肾形虫属（纤毛虫纲：肾形虫科）的一例病例。

Costache C, Bursaşiu S, Filipaş C, Colosi I

Dept. of Microbiology, Faculty of General Medicine, University of Medicine and Pharmacy "Iuliu Haţieganu" Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Iran J Parasitol. 2011 Dec;6(4):99-104.

In the urine of a patient with chronic prostatitis, renal microlithiasis and acute cystitis we found the ciliate protozoa Colpoda spp., both in vegetative and cystic form. The entry point was most likely the urinary tract. Keeping in mind that only four more cases of Colpoda spp. existent in human urine have already been described, and that in the case of our patient the ciliate was present at repeated examinations of his urine, we presumed that it is not only a spurious infection of the urogenital tract. It still remains to be analyzed whether this ciliate belongs to a species of Colpoda adapted to parasitism in homeothermae and whether it can be pathogenic for humans.

在一名患有慢性前列腺炎、肾微结石症和急性膀胱炎患者的尿液中，我们发现了纤毛虫原生动物结肠肾形虫属（Colpoda spp.），既有营养体形式，也有包囊形式。其进入途径很可能是尿路。鉴于此前仅另有4例人类尿液中存在结肠肾形虫属的病例被报道，且在我们这位患者的尿液多次检查中均发现了这种纤毛虫，我们推测这并非仅仅是泌尿生殖道的假性感染。这种纤毛虫是否属于适应恒温动物寄生的结肠肾形虫物种，以及它是否会对人类致病，仍有待分析。