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This document discusses two protozoan parasites - Balantidium coli and Giardia duodenalis. B. coli is a ciliated protozoan and the largest human-infecting parasite. It causes balantidiasis, characterized by bloody diarrhea. It infects the large intestine through cyst ingestion. Giardia is an intestinal flagellate that causes giardiasis worldwide. It has a simple life cycle alternating between infective cysts and attaching trophozoites in the small intestine. Infection results in malabsorption and symptoms l

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John Advincula

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