Retortamonas intestinalis
{{Short description|Species of flagellate}}
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{{Taxobox
| domain = Eukaryota
| unranked_regnum = Excavata
| phylum = Metamonada
| ordo = Retortamonadida
| familia = Retortamonadidae
| genus = Retortamonas
| species = R. intestinalis
| binomial = Retortamonas intestinalis
| binomial_authority = (Wenyon & O'Connor, 1917)
}}
Retortamonas intestinalis is a species of retortamonads which is found in the gastrointestinal tract.{{cite journal |author=Lisa Jones-Engel |author2=Gregory A. Engel |author3=Michael A. Schillact |author4=Jeffery Froehlich |author5=Umar Paputungan |author6=Randall C. Kyes |name-list-style=amp |title=Prevalence of enteric parasites in pet macaques in Sulawesi, Indonesia |journal=American Journal of Primatology |volume=62 |issue=2 |pages=71–82 |year=2004 |pmid=14983465 |doi=10.1002/ajp.20008 |s2cid=2426270 |url=http://staff.washington.edu/ljengel/teammonkey/pubs/Sulawesi%20fecal%20parasites.pdf }}
Ecology
=Habitat=
Retortamonas intestinalis resides in unhygienic areas and are fond of extremely warm climates, inferring that they do not survive in the cold.{{cite journal|last1=Kawamura|first1=Osamu|last2=Kon|first2=Youichi|last3=Naganuma|first3=Atsushi|last4=Iwami|first4=Taku|last5=Maruyama|first5=Hideki|last6=Yamada|first6=Takuro|last7=Sonobe|first7=Kouichi|last8=Horikoshi|first8=Tsutomu|last9=Kusano|first9=Motoyasu|last10=Mori|first10=Masatomo|title=Retortamonas intestinalis in the pancreatic juice of a patient with small nodular lesions of the main pancreatic duct|journal=Gastrointestinal Endoscopy|date=April 2001|volume=53|issue=4|pages=508–510|doi=10.1067/mge.2001.112746|pmid=11275898}}
Infection
=How It Spreads=
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.