Retortamonas intestinalis is a species of retortamonads which is found in the gastrointestinal tract.[1]
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| Species: | R. intestinalis
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| Retortamonas intestinalis (Wenyon & O'Connor, 1917)
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Ecology edit
Habitat edit
Retortamonas intestinalis resides in unhygienic areas and are fond of extremely warm climates, inferring that they do not survive in the cold.[2]
Infection edit
How It Spreads edit
Retortamonas intestinalis usually spreads through human hosts (as nonhuman hosts containing this organism have not been reported) in the form of cysts via the stool of the individual. However, the probability of infection through this is very low, as the common factors pertaining to infection is the exposure of unsanitary contamination and overcrowding of the populus.[2]
References edit
- ^ Lisa Jones-Engel; Gregory A. Engel; Michael A. Schillact; Jeffery Froehlich; Umar Paputungan & Randall C. Kyes (2004). "Prevalence of enteric parasites in pet macaques in Sulawesi, Indonesia" (PDF). American Journal of Primatology. 62 (2): 71–82. doi:10.1002/ajp.20008. PMID 14983465. S2CID 2426270.
- ^ a b Kawamura, Osamu; Kon, Youichi; Naganuma, Atsushi; Iwami, Taku; Maruyama, Hideki; Yamada, Takuro; Sonobe, Kouichi; Horikoshi, Tsutomu; Kusano, Motoyasu; Mori, Masatomo (April 2001). "Retortamonas intestinalis in the pancreatic juice of a patient with small nodular lesions of the main pancreatic duct". Gastrointestinal Endoscopy. 53 (4): 508–510. doi:10.1067/mge.2001.112746. PMID 11275898.
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