Patients with recurring diarrhea should be treated, but cats with a consistent score of 2 or 3 on the Purina Fecal Scoring Chart do not need treatment, Lappin continued, adding that the parasite has ...

Giardia lamblia is a flagellated protistan parasite that is responsible for widespread gastrointestinal infections. Its success as a pathogen is intricately linked to a unique array of cytoskeletal ...

The single-celled intestinal parasite Giardia lamblia colonizes the upper small intestine by fastening to the microvillus brush border of intestinal cells. But exactly how Giardia attaches itself was ...

This report describes a method of cloning Giardia lamblia by limiting dilution which is simpler than the previously described semisolid agar technique and which may also be applied as an assay of cell ...

Cysts of Giardia lamblia can be a contaminant of water and food that can infect humans and cause the zoonotic disease giardiasis. Irradiation by a cobalt-60 source was investigated for its ability to ...

Dr. Scott Smith (M.D., M.S., DTM&H) loves to talk about tapeworms, ticks, primitive protozoa and other creepy little critters that dine on the flesh of hominids. He satiates his obsession by teaching ...

Few things ruin memories of a good camping or backpacking trip than developing abdominal pain, diarrhea, fatigue, or fever upon returning home. Perhaps resulting from drinking contaminated water from ...

An entire school community has been left "devastated" after two young children, understood to be aged five and six, died at a school battling an outbreak of giardiasis. Millstead primary school is ...

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