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Balantidium coli resides in the large intestine of humans, pigs and non-human primates. It is distributed worldwide.

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Mahmud, R., Lim, Y.A.L., Amir, A. (2017). Ciliate. In: Medical Parasitology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68795-7_9

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