Kapur P, Das A K, Kapur P R, Dudeja M
Department of Medicine, HIMSR & H.A.H. Centenary Hospital, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, 110062 India.
Department of Microbiology, HIMSR & H.A.H. Centenary Hospital, Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, 110062 India.
J Parasit Dis. 2016 Mar;40(1):138-40. doi: 10.1007/s12639-014-0464-0. Epub 2014 Apr 26.
Protozoal infections are common in the tropics. Amoebic colitis is the commonest of these infections and can lead to liver abscess as a complication. Balantidium coli is a rare free moving protozoal parasite which is known to infest human large intestine causing a type of colitis very similar to that caused by Entamoeba histolytica. However this pathogen is not known to cause liver invasion in humans. We report here a case of liver abscess caused by B. coli, which is probably the first such case reported in Indian literature.
原生动物感染在热带地区很常见。阿米巴结肠炎是这些感染中最常见的,可导致肝脓肿作为并发症。结肠小袋纤毛虫是一种罕见的自由活动的原生动物寄生虫,已知会感染人类大肠,引起一种与溶组织内阿米巴引起的结肠炎非常相似的结肠炎。然而,这种病原体在人类中不会引起肝脏侵袭。我们在此报告一例由结肠小袋纤毛虫引起的肝脓肿病例,这可能是印度文献中报道的首例此类病例。