Chilomastix

[ki″lo-mas´tiks]

a genus of pear- or lemon-shaped parasitic protozoa found in the intestines of various vertebrates, including humans. All species are considered nonpathogenic or only slightly pathogenic, but one species, C. mesni´li, has been associated with rare cases of watery diarrhea.

Chilomastix

(kī'lō-mas'tiks),

A genus of protozoan flagellates parasitic in the large intestine of humans and other primates, and in many other mammals, birds, amphibia, and reptiles; it is ordinarily nonpathogenic, but one species, Chilomastix mesnili, may be an occasional cause of diarrhea in children.

[chilo- + G. mastix, whip]

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Chilomastix,

A genus of protozoal parasite found in the intestines and occasionally causing diarrhoea.

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Parasitos intestinales en monos congo Alouatta palliata (Primates: Cebidae) de Costa Rica

The other intestinal flagellates, Chilomastix mesnili, Enteromonas bominis, Trichomonas bominis (now Pentatrichomonas bominis) and R.

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flexneri 1 0.1 0 0.0 VTEC(d) 4 0.5 3 0.6 Rotavirus 45 5.3 8 1.4 Adenovirus 19 2.2 2 0.4 Astrovirus 13 1.5 2 0.4 Norwalk-like viruses 43 5.0 6 1.1 Sapporo-like viruses(e) 5 2.1 1 0.6 Giardia lamblia 46 5.4 19 3.3 Entamoeba histolytica/ 9 1.1 4 0.7 dispar Cryptosporidium 18 2.1 1 0.2 Cyclospora 1 0.1 1 0.2 (Possibly) nonpathogenic microorganisms Dientamoeba fragilis 88 10.3 84 14.6 Blastocystis hominis 185 21.7 172 30.0 Endolimax nana 14 1.6 14 2.4 Enteromonas hominis 2 0.2 1 0.2 Chilomastix mesnili 1 0.1 0 0.0 Entamoeba hartmanni 0 0.0 2 0.4 Enterobius vermicularis 0 0.0 1 0.2 Iodamoeba butschlii 0 0.0 1 0.2

Gastroenteritis in Sentinel General Practices, the Netherlands

The first ultrastructural survey (13) of a free-living retortamonad (Chilomastix cuspidata; [ILLUSTRATION FOR FIGURES 1.2, 2.2 OMITTED]) isolated during these studies confirms the similarity with parasitic species and that the retortamonads are a monophyletic group.

Free-living flagellates from anoxic habitats and the assembly of the eukaryotic cell

Three alternative hypotheses for the observed distribution of parasitic and free-living lifestyles within the Diplomonadida in relation to the outgroup Chilomastix, a retortomonad genus, are presented in Figure 3.

Phylogeny and the reversibility of parasitism

Parasites found, and their relative incidence (percentages in parentheses), were: Entamoeba coli (30.8); Endolimax nana (9.5); Dientamoeba fragilis (0.7); Giardia lamblia (4.8); Chilomastix mesnili (1.8); Hymenolepis nana (5.1); Trichuris trichiura (0.3); Ascaris lumbricoides (0.3); Enterobius vermicularis (0.3).

Human intestinal parasitosis in northern Chihuahua, Mexico

1 0,0 6 0,2 3 0,1 Enterobius vermicularis 3 0,1 2 0,1 - - Entamoeba coli 42 1,4 81 2,7 89 3,0 Endolimax nana 13 0,4 28 0,9 15 0,5 Chilomastix mesnili 5 0,2 13 0,4 13 0,4 Iodomoeba butschlii 5 0,2 13 0,4 12 0,4 Entamoeba hartmanni 10 0,3 15 0,5 11 0,4 Trichomonas hominis 2 0,1 2 0,1 2 0,1 Retortamonas intestinalis 2 0,1 1 0,0 3 0,1 Enteromonas hominis 5 0,2 8 0,3 4 0,1 Toplam 433 14,6 733 24,8 533 18,0 Yas 40-50 50-60 >60 Parazit Sayi % Sayi % Sayi % Blastocystis spp.(*) 193 6,5 204 6,9 169 5,7 Blastocystis spp.

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Protozoarios en aguas superficiales y muestras fecales de individuos de poblaciones rurales del municipio Montes, estado Sucre, Venezuela

Hay que hacer notar que, la presencia de especies de protozoarios comensales tales como: Entamoeba coli, Endolimax nana, Iodamoeba butschlii y Chilomastix mesnili tambien demuestra la frecuente contaminacion del agua por heces de humanos y animales parasitados por protozoarios entericos [12].

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