Quinacrine in the Eradication of Giardia Lamblia Infection
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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 that this flagellate does play an important pathogenic role and its presence in the gut produces
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