Giardia lamblia infection in homosexual men.

Giardia lamblia infection in homosexual men.

Epidemic Giardia lamblia infection has usually been associated with contaminated water. In this paper, five proved and one presumed case of G. lamblia infection among homosexual men are reported. The sequential onset of their clinical illnesses and their sexual interrelationships suggest that this outbreak could have been caused by the direct faecal-oral transmission of G. lamblia. Other parasi...

Giardia Lamblia.

Quinacrine in the Eradication of Giardia Lamblia Infection

The pathological significance of Giardia lamblia infection in human beings is still disputed. Some workers fail to attach any importance to this organism and believe that symptoms produced in the human body are not due to this protozoa alone but are perhaps caused by some other concurrent factor or factors. On the other hand, there are quite a large number of workers who definitely maintain tha...

Ocular changes associated with Giardia lamblia infection in children.

BACKGROUND The protozoan disease giardiasis can cause ocular complications, including "salt and pepper" retinal changes. METHODS Ophthalmic examinations were performed in 141 children (mean age 4.7 (SD 2.0) years) with active or past giardiasis diagnosed on the basis of microscopic examination of stool specimens or duodenal secretions--53 were newly diagnosed and untreated (group A), 50 had a...

Infection with cytomegalovirus in homosexual men.

The prevalence and incidence of cytomegalovirus (CMV) infections were studied in a group of homosexual men. Of the 710 participants, 501 (70.6%) had complement fixing antibodies to CMV on entry to the study. During the follow up (maximum 23 months) 69 CMV infections were found: 50 primary infections among the 209 seronegative men (attack rate 27.3%), and 19 recurrent infections among the 501 se...