Balanthidiasis - the protozoal illness, described an intoxication and a canker of a colon predilection to fixing both chronic current and a high lethality at late begun therapy.

Etiology, pathogenesis. It is considered, that at the person and a pig one kind of bacteria parasitizes. Infection of the person occurs at hit of bacteria in a digestive tube where they can is long to exist (in a thin intestine), not causing illness. At some infected faces of a bacterium get into tissues, causing hemorrhages, the centers of a necrosis and a ulcer. They have the wrong outlines which have been cut up and thick edges, the rough bottom covered bloody purulent for a short while. There can come perforation of ulcers, a peritonitis.

Signs, current. The incubation interval lasts from 5 till 30 days (more often from 10 till 15 days). Acute forms of illness are characterized by a fever, signs of the general intoxication and attributes of a lesion of an intestine (an abdominal pain, diarrhea, a meteorism). In excrements the impurity of slime and a blood is marked. The spastic stricture and morbidity of a thick intestine, augmentation of a liver are characteristic. At a proctosigmoidoscope focal process is taped. At serious current the intoxication, a high fever, a chair up to 20 times day with an impurity of slime and a blood with a putrefactive smell are marked. Patients quickly grow thin, sometimes there are signs of a boring of a peritoneum. At a proctosigmoidoscope establish extensive cankers. At a chronic balanthidiasis signs of an intoxication are expressed weakly, a body temperature normal, a feces up to 23 times day, liquid, with slime, sometimes with an impurity of a blood.