BALANTIDIUM GIARDIA CHILOMASTIX TRICHOMONAS TRICHOMONAS TRICHOMONAS DIENTAMOEBA

COLI “LITTLE LAMBLIA “OLD MESNILI HOMINIS TENAX VAGINALIS FRAGILIS

BAG” MAN WITH “Ping-pong
GLASSES” disease”
Common Name B. coli Giardia T. tenax closely similar
intestinalis, resembles T. to Trichomonas
Giardia vaginalis more hominis
duodenalis, closely than T.
Lamblia hominis.
intestinalis,
Lamblia
duodenalis
Associated Balantidiasis Giardiasis Trichomoniasis
Disease
Habitat tartar between Vagina
the teeth etc “Strawberry
cervix”
Host Pigs Beavers,
Muskrats, Water
voles, Sheep,
Cattle, Dogs
Morphology: Two nuclei, Pear shape or Pear shaped Pear-shaped Oval to pear- Ovoid, Round Irregularly
Trophozite Large, bean- teardrop Motility with broad Rapid, nervous, or shaped and Pear- round
shaped is erratic “fallen anterior end jerky, non- shaped
macronucleus leaf” that tapers directional
Sucking disk posteriorly
stiff rotary
directional
motility
Cyst Rounded, Ovoid in shape Lemon shaped none None none none
subspherical, Cyst wall is
oval colorless and
Thick double- smooth
walled cyst wall
 Source of ingestion of food and drinks infective cysts Contaminated droplet Contaminated
Infection infective mature contaminated are ingested milk contamination toilet articles or
cysts in with mature Or Fecal-oral underclothing
contaminated cysts transmission Sharing of
food and water hygiene
supplies
Communal
bathing
treatment of Tetracycline Metronidazole NONE (non None (toothbrush Metronidazole Iodoquinol
choice and tinidazole pathogenic) lng)
I.S Cyst, Trophozoite Trophozoite trophozoite Trophozoite
D.S Trophozoite Trophozoite Trophozoite Trophozoite
Demonstration Enterotest or Stool exam Mouth scrapings Papanicolaou Examination of
string test smears stool samples