Balantidium Coli 



four hours from the time of the death of the patient the 

 balantidia are all dead. Strong and Musgrave,* Solowiew, f 

 Klimenko, t and others have shown that in microscopic sec- 

 tions of the inflamed tissues the micro-organisms could be 

 found deep down in the blood-vessels and lymphatic spaces 

 about the ulcerated areas, sometimes penetrating as deeply 

 as the serous coat of the bowel. Metastatic abscess of the 

 liver may be caused by balantidia, and has been reported 



Fig- 235. Balantidium coli deeply situated in the interglandular tissue 

 of the intestinal mucosa (Brumpt). 



by Manson, and a case of abscess of the lung caused by 

 the organism by Winogradow and Stokvis.H 



Transmission. The transmission of the disease can only 

 come about through the encysted form of the parasites. 

 Great numbers are passed in the fecesof the infected animals, 



* "Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hospital," 1901, xn, 31. 

 t "Centralbl. f. Bakt.," etc., i Abl., 1901, xxix, 821, 849. 

 t Loc. cit. 



"Tropical Diseases," 1900, p. 394. 



|| "Niederl. Tijdschr. v. Geneeskde.," 1884, xx, No. 2, quoted by 

 Braun. 



