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Yahoo Sports - NCAAF - Dr. Saturday "The injury bug has struck TCU once again. Receiver Ty Slanina suffered a broken collarbone during Saturday's win against Texas Tech and will miss the rest of the season, coach Gary Patterson announced. Slanina caught two passes for 32 yards prior to his injury and had nine receptions for 102..." September 29
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College Football Talk "TCU is preparing to enter the 2015 season with high expectations, starting the season ranked No. 2 in the coaches preseason poll. The Horned Frogs will proceed without its top punt returner. Cameron Echols-Luper is reportedly leaving TCU for Arkansas State. The transfer also comes with a change of..." August 24
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Frogs O' War "The former TCU wide receiver is set to graduate in May. Earlier today, former TCU wide receiver Cam White tweeted that upon graduation from TCU, he would be headed to Rutgers to finish out his collegiate football career. White did not play for TCU in 2014 due to concussions suffered in..." March 01
Fox Sports Southwest "TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin plans to have surgery to repair a fractured bone in his left, non-throwing wrist the first week of April, head coach Gary Patterson said Wednesday. He suffered the injury last season but played with a soft cast late in the season. TCU begins spring practice on..." February 26
The Big Lead "TCU Horned Frogs head coach Gary Patterson plans to pitch a six-team college football playoff at the Big 12 meetings. Roughly… * Teams 1-2 get byes for the first round. Teams 3-6 play each other the first week of December * 5 Conference Champions with one at large. * Conferences would get rid..." February 15
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ESPN Dallas "TCU defensive coordinator Dick Bumpas is retiring after 11 years with the program, a school spokesperson confirmed Wednesday. Bumpas, 65, has coached TCU's defense and defensive line since 2004, and was a three-time Broyles Award finalist during his tenure in Fort Worth. The Horned Frogs..." February 05
College Football Talk "If you thought the third-string quarterback who helped propel Ohio State to a three-win postseason run that culminated in a national championship, and who eschewed early entry into the NFL draft, would be the current Heisman front-runner, you'd be wrong. Instead, it's his backfield mate Ezekiel..." January 30
Houston Chronicle "Gary Patterson did everything he could do to lead TCU into the first College Football Playoffs, except beat Baylor. It didn't work out for the Horned Frogs, but Patterson's efforts didn't go unnoticed. Patterson, who guided TCU to a share of the Big 12 championship in its third year in the..." January 15
Fox Sports - College Football "Quarterback Kenny Hill is transferring from Texas A&M, his father Ken told FOX Sports on Friday, adding to not buy all the speculation that his son is already planning on going to TCU. "While Kenny is indeed planning on transferring, we have not committed to any school at this time," the elder..." January 10
Texas A&M QB Kenny Hill has asked for his release from school and is expected to transfer, per sources. TCU a likely destination.
CBS Sports "Gary Patterson's trophy case is filling up rather quickly this season. It was announced on Wednesday that the TCU coach had been named the AP Coach of the Year after leading TCU to an 11-1 record this season, a year after the Horned Frogs went 4-8. It's just the latest Coach of the Year award..." December 24
College Football Talk "Despite not playing in the final four games of the season for the TCU Horned Frogs, running back B.J. Catalon still leads the team with 10 rushing touchdowns. It's a total Catalon won't be able to increase at the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl. TCU head coach Gary Patterson stated Catalon won't play in..." December 24
The Score "After decommiting from Texas A&M on Friday, five-star defensive tackle Daylon Mack has announced which schools he's considering playing at next season. " December 20
College Football Talk "TCU fell just short of a playoff bid, but that doesn't mean their season wasn't a success. And, in recognition of said success, the Horned Frogs' head coach is being rewarded. According to Kate Hairopoulos of the Dallas Morning News, Gary Patterson was on the receiving end of a new contract..." December 16
The Score "TCU head coach Gary Patterson was named the Home Depot Coach of the Year on Wednesday. Patterson led the Horned Frogs to a Big 12 co-championship title this year after an 11-1 season. He was the Horned Frogs defensive coordinator for three years before taking the head coaching position. In..." December 10
CBS Sports "If TCU is going to beat Kansas State on Saturday it's going to have to do so without the services of its leading rusher. TCU coach Gary Patterson confirmed Friday that running back B.J. Catalon will not play in the game. Catalon hadn't been practicing this week, but his status for the game was..." November 08
Fort Worth Star-Telegram "Injured receiver Josh Doctson practiced "a little bit" on Wednesday, TCU coach Gary Patterson said, but he added that freshman Emanuel Porter could start in his place Saturday when the Horned Frogs visit West Virginia. "Emanuel keeps getting better," Patterson said. "We thought in the middle of..." October 31
247 Sports "TCU coach Gary Patterson said he hasn't received any negative reaction for hanging 82 points in an 82-27 win over Texas Tech, though the coach probably wasn't including his own feelings in his answer. Patterson seemed almost embarrassed about it when talking on Monday's Big 12..." October 28
College Football Talk "It appears there was at least a morsel of validity to what turned out to be an erroneous report earlier this week. Tuesday, it was reported that TCU quarterback Trevone Boykin had suffered a significant injury to his left (non-throwing) wrist and would miss 4-6 weeks. That day, though, Boykin..." October 17
The Oklahoman "It was initially reported Tuesday that TCU's starting quarterback Trevone Boykin would miss 4-6 weeks after having surgery to repair a wrist injury, but a university spokesman and Horned Frogs coach Gary Patterson denied the report. Frogsowar.com first reported that Boykin had surgery for an..." October 15
Fox Sports Southwest "The TCU Horned Frogs will debut their new offense Saturday against Samford with a veteran quarterback under center. Whether it will be junior Trevone Boykin or senior Matt Joeckel won't be known until 6 p.m. when the Frogs take the field at Amon Carter Stadium. Head coach Gary Patterson..." August 28
Fort Worth Star-Telegram "Shaun Nixon has a knee injury that will likely result in a redshirt season for him, TCU coach Gary Patterson said. The freshman running back from Lake Travis suffered the injury in practice last week and will undergo surgery. "If it's going to happen, you want it to happen early," Patterson..." August 12
Dallas Morning News "TCU suffered a major recruiting blow on the recruiting trail on Monday afternoon. Four-star Pineville offensive lineman Cody Ford, arguably the crown jewel of the Horned Frogs' 2015 class, flipped his verbal commitment from TCU to Big 12 foe Oklahoma. "OU is a great program, and I like all..." August 12
ESPN "Suspended TCU defensive end Devonte Fields has backed out of his plan to enroll at Stephen F. Austin after a TCU committee ruled he was ineligible to receive a transfer waiver, the school announced Friday. "After originally agreeing to grant a release to Devonte Fields, which would allow him to..." August 09
ESPN "In a landmark decision, a federal judge ruled Friday that the NCAA is in violation of the nation's antitrust laws by restricting the compensation that major college football and men's basketball student-athletes can receive for use of their names, images and likenesses. U.S. District Court..." August 09
Dallas Morning News "After reportedly meeting with TCU officials Tuesday to discuss his future, Devonte Fields seems to be leaving the university. Fields posted to his private Twitter account that he is leaving TCU for Stephen F. Austin. The tweet read: "Just wanted to say thanks to TCU for the opportunity!..." August 07
College Football Talk "It was reported Monday that Devonte Fields would be meeting with TCU officials, with the intimation being that the dismissed star defensive lineman could return to the football team. A day later, that doesn't appear to be the case at all. Multiple media outlets were reporting — or, more to..." August 05
Fox Sports Southwest "TCU's Devonte Fields will meet with school officials on Tuesday, a source told FOX Sports Southwest. They will discuss his status as a student. Fields has been "separated" from TCU since July 22, when Fort Worth police confirmed he was a suspect in a domestic disturbance call. Fields..." August 05
Yahoo! Sports "TCU redshirt sophomore defensive end and Preseason Big 12 Defensive Player of the Year Devonte Fields is a suspect in a domestic disturbance that occurred Sunday morning in Fort Worth, Texas. According to a Fort Worth police report, Haley Brown, Fields' ex-girlfriend, accused him of punching..." July 22
Fort Worth Star-Telegram "Not surprisingly, wide receiver Brandon Carter's career at TCU is pretty much over. TCU head coach Gary Patterson said of the receiver, who in April was arrested on possession of marijuana (which was dropped), that Carter "Probably will not play this year. Academically he will not make..." July 22
Fort Worth Star-Telegram "A marijuana possession charge against TCU wide receiver Brandon Carter was dismissed Tuesday, court records show. Carter, 21, was arrested April 22 after Fort Worth police pulled over a 2010 Lexus he was driving in the 1600 block of Calhoun Street in downtown Fort Worth. Police made the stop..." May 27
Fort Worth Star-Telegram "Troubles for Brandon Carter, wide receiver for the TCU football team, have now extended off the football field following his arrest Tuesday by Fort Worth police on suspicion of possession of marijuana. Fort Worth officers were on routine patrol in the 1600 block of Calhoun Street in downtown..." April 23
CBS Sports "The revolving door of transfer quarterbacks continues to spin, especially at TCU where the Horned Frogs have both lost and added a signal caller in the span of one week. Former Texas A&M quarterback Matt Joeckel confirmed his plans to finish his career at TCU via Twitter on Thursday night...." April 18
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Im hearing about the abdication of our non-aggression pact with the Dominion and you know what I am thinking? Youve got to be kidding me.
First let me clarify. I was in no way for this farce of a peace agreement. The late Vedek Yasim was one of the first to warn that the treaty was just a subtle way to conquer our world little by little instead of in one fell swoop. At least we were safe from an all-out assault
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Weve got programming editor. Bil Shulzak here to represent our average citizen.
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The disappearance of our Celestial Temple was the first step. Then our own government adds to it by voiding the treaty with the Dominion. When those things werent enough, how about allowing a Romulan military presence in this sector? The Romulan Empire may be an important asset to the war effort, but that hardly means theyll give up their conquering ways once the war is over. Whether that alliance wins or loses, neither outcome bodes well for Bajor. Either Bajor falls to the Dominion, or were at the mercy of the Klingons or the Romulans or Federation subversion through our own puppet leaders.
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First Minister Shakaar, why dont you just set us all on fire? For the love of the Prophets, what are you doing? Do you not hear the cries of people yelling, STOP! We would like some sanity on our planet for a second! When the Occupation ended, we had political opportunists fighting amongst themselves, forsaking all that we had accomplished in the previous fifty years.
We didnt vote to lose the Republic all over again. We voted for change. You know what that change was? The change we wanted was an end to the games! We wanted our elected representatives to stand for something. We just want some common sense. We can disagree on politics, but good lord almighty, man. Youve seen one conqueror; youve seen them all. And our government is presiding over the end of Bajoran civilization, as we know it.
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CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS, Oct. 2008, p. 626–638
Copyright © 2008, American Society for Microbiology. All Rights Reserved.
Vol. 21, No. 4
Current World Status of Balantidium coli
Frederick L. Schuster1* and Lynn Ramirez-Avila2
California Department of Health, Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory, Richmond, California,1and
San Francisco General Hospital, University of California Medical Center, San Francisco, California2
Balantidium spp. Defined.......................................................................................................................................629
Molecular Biology...................................................................................................................................................629
Balantidium coli versus Balantidium suis..............................................................................................................630
Temperature Range for Growth............................................................................................................................631
Immune Response...................................................................................................................................................631
Immunosuppression ...............................................................................................................................................631
Crossing the Species Barrier: Transfection Attempts.......................................................................................632
Factors Contributing to Disease...........................................................................................................................633
Outbreaks of Balantidiosis....................................................................................................................................633
Virulence versus Avirulence in Balantidium........................................................................................................633
Infections in Nonhuman Mammals......................................................................................................................633
Simians and apes................................................................................................................................................634
Infections in Humans.............................................................................................................................................634
Areas of endemicity ............................................................................................................................................635
Other possible pathways for transmission......................................................................................................635
Risk factors..........................................................................................................................................................635
Institutional balantidiosis..................................................................................................................................635
Pulmonary Infections .............................................................................................................................................635
Balantidiosis versus "Dysentery" .........................................................................................................................636
Balantidium and Laboratory Infection.................................................................................................................636
Protozoan parasitism covers a broad spectrum of diseases.
Balantidium coli and balantidiosis, the subjects of this review,
barely register among infectious protozoan diseases.
Balantidium is the only ciliated protozoon known to infect
humans and is the largest protozoon infecting humans and
nonhuman primates. Balantidiosis is a zoonotic disease and
is acquired by humans via the fecal-oral route from the
normal host, the pig, where it is asymptomatic. Water is the
vehicle for most cases of balantidiosis. Human-to-human
transmission may also occur. Balantidium's habitats in hu-
mans are the cecum and colon. Humans may remain asymp-
tomatic, as does the pig, or may develop dysentery similar to
that caused by Entamoeba histolytica. Death is an infrequent
consequence of balantidiosis, but in developing countries
with undernourished and overparasitized populations, it can
make the difference between a healthy life and chronic de-
The organism is cosmopolitan and can be found wherever
pigs are found. Disease appears to be a problem mostly of
developing countries, where water sources may be contam-
inated with porcine or human feces. B. coli can become an
opportunistic parasite in immunosuppressed hosts living in
urban environments, where pigs are not a factor in infection.
* Corresponding author. Mailing address: California Department of
Health, Viral and Rickettsial Disease Laboratory, Richmond, CA
94804. Phone: (510) 307-8651. Fax: (510) 307-8599. E-mail: fred.schuster
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Balantidium is an often-neglected pathogen. Research on
Balantidium has been sparse. Zaman (80) published an inclu-
sive review on Balantidium 30 years ago, but recently the or-
ganism has come to be regarded as an emerging protozoan
pathogen and has been reviewed by Garcia (22).
Balantidium has a simple life cycle, as follows: dormant cyst
to trophozoite and trophozoite to cyst. Transmission is direct,
from a contaminated water or food supply to humans (Fig. 1).
No intermediate host, as occurs with many other parasitic
species, is needed.
Malmsten (44) was the first to recognize the organism in two
humans with dysentery in the year 1857. Malmsten identified it
as a species of Paramecium and named the organism Parame-
cium coli. Leuckart described a morphologically similar species
from the pig intestine in 1861 (39). Shortly thereafter, Stein
equated the two organisms and placed them in the genus
Balantidium (G. balanto-, bag), and because of priority, the
species name (B. coli) was retained (64). Ironically, Malmsten
FIG. 1. Life cycle of Balantidium infection in humans. The trophozoites and cysts are shed in feces (1), and if the cysts, in particular,
contaminate drinking water or food, the infection can be spread to other humans (2). Fruits and vegetables may also be contaminated by cysts and
serve as a means of transmission. The bottom panel illustrates the pattern of encystment and asexual reproduction in trophic ciliates. (Reprinted
from the CDC-DPDx Parasite Image Library [http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/].)
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first described balantidiosis, usually regarded as a disease of
tropic or subtropic regions, from patients in Sweden (44).
Morphologically similar organisms have been detected in a
variety of mammals, including rats, chimpanzees, orangutans,
and infrequently, dogs or cats. The species found in pigs, Bal-
antidium suis, is likely identical to B. coli from humans. Other
species have been isolated from guinea pigs (Balantidium
caviae), cockroaches (Balantidium blattarum), fish, birds, and
amphibia. In all, there have been about 50 species described
(4). Morphology has been the basis for identification to the
species level, and some of the different species that have been
created are in reality B. coli showing polymorphism in different
hosts and under varied growth conditions (41). The taxonomy
will ultimately be resolved once these organisms undergo se-
quencing of their small subunit rRNAs.
The trophic ciliate measures 30 to 150 ?m in length by 25 to
120 ?m in width; the cyst, which may be spherical or slightly
ovoid, measures 40 to 60 ?m in diameter (41). Size, however,
varies, with some balantidia being up to 200 ?m in length. The
mouth (oral apparatus) is located at the tapering anterior end,
and the cytopyge (anus) is at the rounded posterior end (Fig.
2). A sausage-shaped macronucleus and a rounded micronu-
cleus are located in the cytoplasm (Fig. 3). Asexual division
occurs as it does in most ciliates. A transverse furrow forms,
dividing the mother cell into two asymmetric daughter cells, an
anterior (proter) and a posterior (opisthe) cell. The proter
retains the oral apparatus, and the opisthe develops a new
apparatus. An anterior stomatogenic field appears in the opis-
the, leading to formation of the new oral apparatus, but the old
oral apparatus may also undergo reorganization (37). The
swimming organism exhibits a rotary-type motion by means of
its somatic cilia that may facilitate movement through the
contents of the colon.
Sexual reproduction as conjugation has been reported for
Balantidium, but information is lacking about details of nuclear
events. Two successive fissions (meiosis) occur preceded by
formation of the conjugants, by either equal or unequal divi-
sions (37). The two conjugants attach at the oral apparatus and
exchange micronuclear products of meiosis.
Although the organism lives in an anaerobic environment,
Zaman (80) described mitochondrion-like bodies in electron
micrographs of Balantidium; in contrast, Entamoeba histolytica
and Entamoeba dispar, found in the human colon, are anaer-
obes and lack mitochondria. Cristae or tubuli, however, were
reportedly absent from the mitochondrion-like bodies, raising
the possibility that these organelles are hydrogenosomes (80).
Hydrogenosomes, relict mitochondria, have been identified in
balantidia as well as in other anaerobic ciliates (25, 27). Other
cytoplasmic components include endoplasmic reticulum, ribo-
somes, and numerous vacuoles filled with food particles. A
Golgi apparatus was not seen, but vesicles of endoplasmic
reticulum function in lieu of Golgi vesicles (49). Mucocysts are
also seen (61). Two contractile vacuoles, functioning as osmo-
regulatory organelles, pulsate at a low rate even though the
surrounding environment is isotonic or close to it (79). Undi-
FIG. 2. Trophic stage of Balantidium. The surface of the organism
is uniformly covered by cilia, and the lighter areas in the cytoplasm
represent a contractile vacuole (CV) and the macronucleus (Mn). The
oral apparatus (OA) is at the apical end of the organism in this
micrograph. (Reprinted from the CDC-DPDx Parasite Image Library
FIG. 3. View of intestinal lumen with two trophic ciliates. The
prominent macronucleus is seen in this stained section. The upper
ciliate shows the small micronucleus nestled against the macronucleus.
(Reprinted from the CDC-DPDx Parasite Image Library [http://www
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gested residue from food vacuoles is eliminated through the
Balantidium jocularum, from the herbivorous surgeonfish,
was found to harbor endosymbiotic bacteria in its macronu-
cleus (26). The bacteria were unusually large, measuring up to
4 ?m in length, but apparently without pathogenic potential
for the ciliate. They are probably gram-positive organisms be-
cause of an endospore-like inclusion within the bacterium. No
other reports of endosymbionts from Balantidium have ap-
The cyst of Balantidium is the transmissive stage of the
organism. Because of its thickened wall, it is protected from
desiccation and other environmental stress (Fig. 4). It survives
best in humid surroundings protected from direct sunlight. The
trophic ciliate is reportedly unable to survive passage through
the stomach because of the low pH of gastric fluid, but Balan-
tidium trophozoites inoculated into the stomach of guinea pigs
have been found in the colon (56). The process of encystment
begins in the colon and rectum of the host, and cysts are
generally found in formed feces (56). Cysts, however, were not
produced in cultures of balantidia (32, 80), nor are they pro-
duced in cases of acute dysentery. Attempts to simulate in vitro
the colorectal environment in which cysts form (resorption of
water and increased salt concentrations) were unsuccessful in
inducing encystations; overfeeding or starvation was also un-
successful (32). Loss of the ability to encyst is seen in some
other protozoa (e.g., soil amebae) maintained in culture, due
in part to less than optimal growth conditions and/or limiting
amounts of nutrients essential for encystment. E. histolytica, an
agent of amebic dysentery, resembles Balantidium in produc-
ing cysts in formed stools but trophozoites in dysenteric stools.
In vitro encystment of E. histolytica depends upon a number of
factors, including withholding rice starch, the composition of
the bacterial flora, and the encystment medium, and may re-
quire a complex protocol to induce cyst formation (10).
The diet of the ciliate is made up of bacteria and food
particles present or passing through the colon. If extensive
damage has been done to the wall of the colon, red blood cells
may also be seen in trophic organisms, as well as blood in the
stool. The ciliates produce flask-shaped lesions in the submu-
cosa, where they form clusters called nides or nests (4).
Protist taxonomy was recently revised by a committee of the
International Society of Protistologists and allied groups,
based on the wealth of new information that has accumulated
about these organisms since the last "official" taxonomy pub-
lished in 1980 (1). Since that time, an increased understanding
of ultrastructural morphology, biochemical properties and re-
lationships, studies of nuclear and mitochondrial DNAs, and
protist ecology has developed. The revised taxonomy does not
use the classic categories of phylum, class, order, etc., in order
to maximize taxonomic plasticity as additional information on
phylogenetic relationships, particularly from genomic studies,
becomes available (1).
Balantidium spp. Defined
The following definition is based on the new taxonomy and
represents a characterization of the genus Balantidium, from
the more general ciliate features to those of the genus Balan-
Balantidium spp. are ciliated binucleate protozoa with macro-
and micronuclei (features of Ciliophora) covered by uniform
rows of monokinetid somatic ciliation, i.e., rows of cilia arising
from single rows of subsurface kinetosomes and their associ-
ated fibrils; a slit-like anteroventral oral cavity depressed below
the surface (a feature of Litostomea); an oral apparatus with
dense ciliation but lacking specialized oral membranelles, with
features of endosymbiosis in many animals ("hairy" mouths;
features of Trichostomatia); a vestibular groove leading into
the oral apparatus (feature of Vestibulifera); a vestibular
groove of less than one-half the body length, with features of
commensals of vertebrate, amphibian, and insect hosts or, in
some cases, parasites that may attack the intestinal lining (fea-
ture of the "family" Balantidiidae). Representative species in
mammals are B. coli, B. suis, and B. caviae.
Molecular Biology
Nucleotide sequences from two studies on Balantidium are
on file at GenBank, one based on small subunit rRNA
(AF029763) and the second based on internal transcribed
spacers 1 and 2 (AF045030) (65, 66, 73). Sequencing was used
to construct a phylogenetic tree placing Balantidium coli with
the trichostome ciliates Isotricha spp. and Dasytricha spp., but
not necessarily in the same subgroup ("order" Vestibulifera).
These ciliates have a sunken oral apparatus but lack toxic
trichocysts, which aid in subduing prey (51). As yet, a definitive
taxonomy of the group awaits additional information.
FIG. 4. Encysted ciliate. The cytoplasm is protected from environ-
mental stress within a double-walled covering. (Reprinted from the
CDC-DPDx Parasite Image Library [http://www.dpd.cdc.gov/dpdx/].)
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Balantidium coli versus Balantidium suis
Are B. coli from humans and B. suis from pigs the same
organism? Persons infected with porcine strains of Balantidium
are usually assumed to have B. coli infections (72). The answer
awaits further studies of the organisms' DNAs. Although pigs
are the major reservoir for balantidiosis in humans, laboratory
studies indicate that humans are not readily infected with B.
suis or, for that matter, B. coli. The two organisms appear to be
different from one another—one is larger (B. coli) and one is
smaller (B. suis)—which is evidence enough for some to regard
them as different species. According to Levine (41), however,
a clonal isolate of B. coli showed both morphotypes after being
maintained in culture. The size difference between the two was
attributable to growth conditions of the ciliates. Jameson (32)
favored the view that there is a single species of Balantidium
that splits into two size variations. Similarly, B. caviae from the
guinea pig was described as being indistinguishable in vitro
from B. suis from swine (56). An agar diffusion study of anti-
gens of Balantidium spp. found only minor antigenic differ-
ences between B. coli and B. suis (36).
Few studies have examined the energy metabolism of these
organisms. Balantidia are equally able to survive under anaer-
obic as well as aerobic conditions. Carbohydrates are the chief
source of energy for the ciliates growing in vivo (80).
In studies of B. coli combining ultrastructure with cytochem-
istry, peroxisomes were identified in the ciliate. These vesicles
contain peroxidase, an enzyme affording protection from the
destructive effects of highly oxidative compounds, such as hy-
drogen peroxide (60). A comparison of the cytoplasm of cili-
ates from asymptomatic swine and those with acute balantid-
iosis was made. Peroxisomes were more numerous but smaller
(0.6 to 0.8 ?m) in balantidia from asymptomatic pigs than in
those with acute disease (?0.8 ?m). Likewise, nucleic acid
contents (particularly RNA, but also DNA) from symptomatic
and asymptomatic hogs differ, with the former having more
content (62). The difference may depend on the degree of
metabolic activity of the ciliates and, in the case of RNA, may
be indicative of enhanced protein synthesis. Ciliates with
higher nucleic acid content produced more robust cultures, at
least in the initial stages of in vitro growth (62).
The enzyme glucose-6-phosphatase was present in small ves-
icles attached to the endoplasmic reticulum or in the mem-
brane itself (61). Alkaline phosphatase was found in the ciliate
cortex, nuclear and ciliary membranes, and kinetosomes as
well as in vesicles of the endoplasmic reticulum (61). Phos-
phatase enzymes are important for their role in making glucose
available as an energy source.
Balantidia produce no known toxins, but their ability to
produce ulceration of the colon wall is attributed to hyaluron-
idase, an enzyme that digests hyaluronic acid, a component of
the "glue" holding mucosal epithelial cells together (68). The
dissolution of group C Streptococcus hyaluronic acid-contain-
ing capsules and the breakdown of potassium hyaluronate by
living B. coli were taken as evidence of hyaluronidase activity.
Entamoeba histolytica, the classic protozoan dysentery agent,
attacks the mucosal surface of the colon and was long claimed
to possess hyaluronidase activity. Attempts to demonstrate its
presence, however, using E. histolytica extracts, did not support
the claim (50). In the case of B. coli, other factors may affect
the results, including associated bacteria, waning of virulence
(see next paragraph) in long-term cultures, up- and downregu-
lation of presumptive virulence genes, and strain differences.
Thus, the matter of hyaluronidase production by Balantidium
warrants further study. Levine (41) noted that invasion of co-
lonic epithelium by Balantidium might be secondary to damage
caused by intestinal bacteria.
The term "virulence" is used here as the degree of patho-
genicity of a parasite and involves substances elaborated by a
pathogen that facilitate infection and disease (e.g., toxins, en-
zymes that promote invasiveness, and adhesive properties).
Balantidia are available from fresh pig feces, particularly
from animals with evidence of acute balantidiosis, and from
slaughterhouses. An insulated bottle is used for transport of
porcine intestinal contents to the laboratory. There were a
number of early attempts at maintenance or cultivation in
vitro. Gastric mucin media were developed for Balantidium
and maintained growth for as long as 30 months. Calf serum
and rice starch or rice powder were also required. Starch
grains, if present in culture medium, are ingested and serve as
a carbohydrate source (80). The addition of soluble sugars to
growth media encourages overgrowth of accompanying bacte-
ria, whereas starch particles are efficiently ingested and di-
gested by the phagotrophic ciliates (10). A defined medium
with cysteine HCl and i-inositol was used for short-term phys-
iologic experiments with the organisms, but little in the way
of results appeared in the literature (35). Trophic ciliates,
however, did not survive agitation in attempts at manometric
Biphasic media in tubes were often used with an agar, in-
spissated egg yolk, or serum butt overlaid with nutrient me-
dium. Bacteria present in the sample can overgrow in an en-
riched medium, requiring the addition of antibiotics (e.g.,
penicillin-streptomycin) to suppress bacterial proliferation.
When growing in tubes, balantidia favor the bottom of the
tube, where conditions are microaerophilic or anaerobic. Za-
man maintained monoxenic cultures of B. coli with Escherichia
coli, using antibiotics to control bacterial overgrowth (80). Di-
amond's TYSGM medium for Entamoeba and other enteric
parasites will also support the xenic (with bacteria) growth of
balantidia (10). The medium contains Trypticase (casein di-
gest), yeast extract, serum, and porcine gastric mucin. Starch
powder is added to tubes at the time of inoculation of medium.
Zaman (80) noted that B. suis from the pig is not as readily
cultured as B. coli from humans. Others apparently encoun-
tered no difficulties with cultivation of B. suis (62). Among the
variables involved in cultivation are the growth medium and
pH (optimal range, 5.4 to 8.0) (32), associated undefined bac-
terial flora, strain differences, and differences in nutritional
requirements between ciliates from different hosts.
In the case of many pathogens maintained in vitro, pro-
longed cultivation attenuates virulence, and animal passage
may be required to restore it. The difficulty in infecting labo-
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So we decided to go back and see how things have progressed at Revlon, how their comprehensive cloud has matured, and how the benefits from aggressively embracing the cloud have evolved into positive consequences for their data architecture.
This special BriefingsDirect podcast then comes to you from the recent 2012 VMworld Conference in San Francisco, part of a series on cloud computing and software-defined datacenter infrastructure developments.
To fill us in on Revlon's latest IT developments, we're joined by David Giambruno, Senior Vice President and CIO of Revlon. The interview is conducted by Dana Gardner, Principal Analyst at Interarbor Solutions. [Disclosure: VMware is a sponsor of BriefingsDirect podcasts.]
Here are some excerpts:
Gardner: Now that you've been doing private cloud as an early adopter and at an advanced state, what has it been doing for you?
Giambruno: We have a couple of fronts. The biggest, which you alluded to, was the unintended consequences, and we've had a couple of them. When you think of Revlon, we're global and we have a huge application portfolio. As we put everything on our cloud and are using our cloud, we realized that all of our data sits in one place now.
So when you think of big-data management, we've been able to solve the problem by classifying all the unstructured data in Revlon and we did that efficiently. We still joke that it's like chewing glass. You've got to go through this huge process.
But, we have the ability to look at all of our data, a couple of petabytes, in the same place. Because the cloud let us look at it all, we can bring up all of Revlon in our disaster recovery (DR) test environments and have our developers work with it at no cost. We have disconnected that cost and effort.
Once we realized we had this opportunity to start working on our big data, the other unintended consequences was our master data model. On top of our big data, we were able to able to efficiently and effectively build a global master data model.
Chief directive
At Revlon, one of our chief directives from the executive team is to globalize. So we're collapsing 21 enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems into one. The synergies of having this big-data structure and having this master data model is changing how to deploy a global ERP. Loading that data is now just a few clicks of a button. It's highly automated. We're not ETLing data and facing all the old challenges. We're not copying environments. Everything is available to us and it's constantly updating.
At Revlon, we replicate all of our cloud activity every 15 minutes. You've seen on VMware, where we had disasters and we were able to recover a country quickly and effectively. That replication process and constantly updating allows us to update all these instances at no cost and with little effort.
You have to build the structure and you have to go through that process, but once it's done, it's now automated and you march that out. It's the ability to quickly and effectively manage all your big data coming in. For us, it's point of sale -- roughly 600 million-plus attributes.
For us to provide information to the business teams, to build good products, to sell good products, is a key differentiator in helping them.
Gardner: Why did you do the data the way you did that's now led to this cloud architecture benefit?
We live in the information age, and to me, the most important thing is delivering information to the business teams.
Giambruno: We started the cloud architecture, and I always joke it's like having a Ferrari that you can take out for a spin. When we were building it, we didn't realize all the things we can do.
So it's really that je ne sais quoi, the little thing that, as you see it, you realize all these things you can do. You are always planning to do those things for the business, because that's what we do, but it's how you do them.
I've always said the cloud is what the local area network (LAN) was 15 or 20 years ago. The LAN changed the way people dealt with information and applications, and the cloud is doing the same thing. Actually, it's on a bigger geometry, because it really eliminates geography and provides the ability to move data and information around.
We live in the information age, and to me, the most important thing is delivering information to the business teams. That's what we see as one of the big next evolutions in our cloud -- making information out of all this data and delivering that on whatever device they want to be on, wherever they are, securely and effectively, in a context that they can understand. Not in a way that we can understand, but in a way that they can consume.
Gardner: Understanding a bit about how you did this chronologically, for those that are still in the process of getting there with private cloud, did you focus on the data issues first and then application and workloads? Did you do them simultaneously? Is there some lesson to learn about how you did it in an orderly sense that others could benefit from?
First things first
Giambruno: I live in this simple world of crawl, walk, run. Whenever I say that my team starts cringing, because they think, "Oh, there he goes again." But it was literally fix the infrastructure first and then, from an application and data perspective, the low-hanging fruit, the file servers.
It's this progressive capability of learning how to do things -- low risk to high risk. What you end up doing is figuring out how to effectively do those things, because not only do you manage the technology, but you have to manage the people and the process changes, and all those things that have to happen.
But all ships have to rise at the same time. So it's the ability to run these concurrent streams. From a management perspective, it's how not to get overwhelmed and how to take advantage of the technology, the automation, and the capabilities that come along with that to free up work that you used to do and put it towards making the change.
I'm a big believer in not doing big bang. So it's not like, tomorrow we're going to have a private cloud. Throw the switch. It's the small incremental changes that help organizations adapt. It's a little bit every day. You look back, and at the end of six months or a year, you realize how much we've done.
It's been the same in Revlon. I constantly take my team and sit them down and say, "Look what we've done. You're in the forest. You're in the trees. It's time to look at the forest. Step back and look what you guys have done." Because it's a little bit every day, and you don't realize the magnitude or the mass, when you have a team of people doing something every day and going forward.
From a management perspective, it's how not to get overwhelmed and how to take advantage of the technology.
Gardner: For those of our listeners who may not be that familiar with Revlon, at least your IT operations, give us a sense of the scale -- the number of applications, size of data, just so we better appreciate the task that you've accomplished.
Giambruno: I usually quantify it by our cloud, because those are the simple metrics and we seem to be pretty steady, so the metrics are holding. Our cloud makes about 14,000 transactions a second. Our applications move around Revlon 15,000 times a month with no human intervention. Our change rate of data is between 17 and 30 terabytes a week.
We have roughly, depending on the ups and downs, between 97 and 98 of our total compute on our internal cloud, we have some AS/400s and I think one UNIX box left. But that's really the scale of what we do.
All of our geographies are around the world. We sit in all the continents except for Antarctica. We have a global manufacturing facility in Oxford, North Carolina, that produces 72 percent of everything we sell in the world. We have some other factors around the world. And we are delivering north of six nines uptime.
Gardner: An unintended consequence was a benefit for how data can be accessed and consumed, but a lot of people are hoping for consequences around cost. Is there something going on now a year later vis-à-vis your total cost, or maybe even the cost of data? Maybe you have been able to reduce the footprint of data, even while you have accessed more and more quickly. What's the cost equation?
Cost avoidance and savings
Giambruno: There is a history there, as we talked about. We have given back north of $70 million in cost avoidance and cost savings, and we're continuously figuring out how to use everything. My team is highly technical, so I call it turning screws. We are always turning screws on how to more effectively manage everything.
We're always looking at how to not spend money. It's simple. The more money we don't spend, the more that R&D, marketing, and advertising have to grow our company. That's the key to us.
We leverage capability, so one of the big things this year also was our mobile business intelligence (BI) capability. We've disconnected most of the costs for things in Revlon around IT. We only manage at a top line.
But if someone wants to try a new application, generally by the time the business team gets in a meeting with us, it's no cost. We have servers set up. We have the environment. We have the access control set up for the vendor to come in and set everything up. So that's still ongoing.
We have got this huge mobile BI initiative, which is delivering information to business teams and contacts. That's the new thing where we have disconnected the cost. We're not laying out money for it, and we're just now executing around that.
While data keep growing, we're still figuring out how to manage things better and better in the background.
For me, the cost equation is more and more around cost avoidance and keeping on extending the capability of that cloud.
Gardner: And it seems as if those costs are more of an operational ongoing nature, predictable, recurring, easy to budget, rather than those big-bang types of cost?
Giambruno: Very, very predictable. For the past three years, we have had the same line items. While data keep growing, we're still figuring out how to manage things better and better in the background, because the cloud generates lot of data, which we want it to do. Data, information, and how we use that is the competitive weapon.
This cost avoidance, or cost containment, while extending capability, is the little magical thing that happens, that we do for the business. We're very level in our spend, but we keep delivering more and more and more.
Gardner: Because we are here at VMworld in San Francisco, tell me a little bit about the VMware impact for the cloud. How do you view the VMware suite and portfolio vis-à-vis the impact it has had on your maturation and benefits?
Very advanced
Giambruno: I want to use technology as a competitive weapon. My team masters it. We own it intellectually.
For us, it's where VMware is going. We're always pushing VMware. "What have you got next? What have you got next?" It's up to us to take capability and extend it. I don't mean to be flip or narcissistic or anything like that, but we've got that piece under control. It's about how do you do it better.
Every time there's an upgrade, what features and functionalities can we then take advantage and translate that into a business use? When I say business use, we tell the business teams, "Here's a new capability. You can do this and keep changing the structure of operating."
The new version of vSphere 5.1 came out, and we're in the process of exposing our internal cloud to our vendors and suppliers. We're eliminating all these virtual private networks (VPNs). It's about how we change and how IT operates, changing the model. For me, that's a competitive advantage, and it's the opportunity to reduce structural cost and take people away from managing firewalls.
We did that. We got that. Now we're going to do this a different way. We're going to expose to our vendors securely the information that they need, that they can interact with as easily and effectively.
Changing the model is really the opportunity, making it easier for the auditors to audit and making it easier for your supply chain.
There's even the idea of taking a portion of our apps and presenting those to our suppliers on their iPads and their iPhones so they can update our data and our systems much more cleanly and effectively. We can get the synergies and effectiveness and have our partners like to work with us and make it easy on them as well. It's always a quid pro quo, "It's Revlon. They're good to deal with. Let's help them."
It's how you create those partnerships and effectiveness to get business done better. It makes it easier on the business teams, contracts go better, and it's cascading. I call it the spiral up effect, changing the way you operate to spiral up and take advantage of capabilities.
Gardner: Is that something we could classify as another unintended consequence -- a benefit that you have been able to enjoy these efficiencies around cloud internally for your enterprise, but now you are taking it to an extended enterprise benefit?
Giambruno: Absolutely. Look at the security complexity around VPNs and managing that and the audits. That's so much fun. Changing the model is really the opportunity, making it easier for the auditors to audit and making it easier for your supply chain, for all of those people to interact with you in a much more effective manner.
It's about enabling procurement to process their information and work with the vendors, because everything is about change. It's about speed of change. If we get a demand signal that changes and we need to buy more raw materials or whatever for our factories, we have the ability for not only our procurement teams, but our vendors to interact with us easily to make those changes. It ensures that we can deliver the right products, to the right stores, to the right peoples, so at the end the consumers are happy. It's about how do you change the model of delivering that.
Technology enabler
VMware has done that for us, and we keep taking advantage of all the stuff. I joke that I'm like a technology enabler: "What have you got for me? What have you got for me?" So I can give it out to the business and my teams, because it keeps people interested. We can say, "We saw you guys, and it was hard for you. Now, you can do this." And it's done.
"What do you mean it's done?" "It's done. Just use it. It's okay. Let us know what you think, if you want us to change something." But it's always being on the front of the bow, saying, "Here's what we can do. Here's how we can help."
That's the culture of IT in Revlon. I'm merciless about how we're just here to help. We run the technology and own the technology intellectually, so we can help. That's my only concern.
VMware has done that for us, and we keep taking advantage of all the stuff.
Internal cloud
In the future, in my internal cloud, I should be able to take a vertical instance of functionality and push that. To me, that's next. If the vendors can figure out how to do that and have my internal cloud manage those transactions back, but push the pieces of functionality wherever it needs to be, so it sits in those Mini Me data centers and let it be close to people, so I don't have to deal with latency and then manage those transactions back, that's the next big evolution.
Then there's mobile computing. What I mean by mobile computing is viewing applications, so data never leaves my data center.
I know a device. I know the person. When they hit the edge of my network, essentially hit my data center, we know their device. We know who they are, and they only get access to information they are supposed to have and they only view it.
I could encrypt my entire data center, and at a hypervisor level, encrypt everything, because if you encrypt the VBK file, the job is done. The compliance and security impact is huge. No more data leakage, audits become easier, all of those things.
Again, it's a completely different way to operate and think about things, but we need to slice applications up, move them out, and then view the applications. That's a whole new geometry of operating IT in a much more efficient manner.
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