| first evidence of previously undescribed trichomonad species in the intestine of pigs? | three different parasites of the phylum parabasala (tritrichomonas foetus, trichomitus rotunda and tetratrichomonas buttreyi) have been described in pigs. in a previous study (mostegl et al., 2011) approximately 47% of 91 paraffin wax-embedded intestinal samples of pigs which were trichomonas-positive by in situ hybridization using a probe with a broad reactivity spectrum contained other species than t. foetus. out of these, intestinal trichomonads from three pigs (pigs 1-3) were further analyze ... | 2011 | 22093906 |