Immunological diagnosis of Giardia lamblia infection

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.

Biology of Giardia lamblia.

Giardia lamblia is a common cause of diarrhea in humans and other mammals throughout the world. It can be distinguished from other Giardia species by light or electron microscopy. The two major genotypes of G. lamblia that infect humans are so different genetically and biologically that they may warrant separate species or subspecies designations. Trophozoites have nuclei and a well-developed c...

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...

Giardia lamblia and Giardiasis

Introduction Ask the average outdoors person about Giardia lamblia, and they have certainly heard about it. Almost always, however, they are considerably misinformed about both the organism’s significance in wilderness water and the seriousness of the disease, giardiasis, if contracted. The amount of information easily found on the subject is voluminous. Unfortunately, almost all of it is flawe...