Giardia and Giardiasis
Antibodies to cysts of Giardia lamblia in primary giardiasis and in the absence of giardiasis
... In 118 healthy young adults, who had probably never had giardiasis, the geometric mean titer of serum antibodies to Giardia cysts was 29.9 Fig.. In 150 patients with similar age distribu[r] ...
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Physical and chemical characterization of a Giardia lamblia specific antigen useful in the coprodiagnosis of giardiasis
... Counterimmunoelectrophoresis CIE with monospecific rabbit anti-GSA 65 antiserum was used to assess the stability of GSA 65 after Formalin fixation and prolonged storage at -20 and 4°C in[r] ...
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Isolation and identification of a Giardia lamblia specific stool antigen (GSA 65) useful in coprodiagnosis of giardiasis
... lamblia cysts and trophozoites, sonic extracts from trophozoites grown in culture, purified cyst sonic extracts, and partially purified antigen from cyst-positive stool eluates were indi[r] ...
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Determination of Giardia duodenalis assemblages and multi locus genotypes in patients with sporadic giardiasis from England
... the Giardia beta- giardin (bg), glutamate dehydrogenase (gdh) and triose- phosphate isomerase (tpi) ...Two Giardia assemblage-specific nested PCR assays were used to amp- lify the tpi ...
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Stool diagnosis of giardiasis using a commercially available enzyme immunoassay to detect Giardia specific antigen 65 (GSA 65)
... Averaged titration data from five Giardia-positive stool specimens treated with PBS-T positive control, Cary-Blair medium, 10% Formalin, or SAF fixative and five untreated Giardianegativ[r] ...
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Treatment-refractory giardiasis: challenges and solutions
... the laboratory-induced drug resistance, arising as a meta- bolic adaptation at many levels, should more accurately be termed “tolerance”. The term “resistant” lines (or isolates, if uncloned) may be reserved for those ...
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Occurrence and distribution of Giardia species in wild rodents in Germany
... more Giardia species, Giardia microti and Giardia muris, are known to infect ...preferences. Giardia microti is thought to be a parasite mainly of ro- dents belonging to the family Cricetidae ...
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Growth inhibition of the intestinal parasite Giardia lamblia by a dietary lectin is associated with arrest of the cell cycle
... Giardia lamblia, a cause of diarrheal disease throughout the world, is a protozoan parasite that thrives in the small intestine. It is shown here that wheat germ agglutinin (WGA), a naturally occurring lectin ...
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Prevalence of Giardia infection in households of Giardia cases and risk factors for household transmission
... Giardia transmission occurs through the ingestion of the infective cyst stage shed in human or animal faeces. The cyst may be present in faecally contaminated water, food or fomites. The clinical disease ...
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Giardiasis
... of Giardia infections, and where the resulting partial immunity might alter the clinical picture and observed response to treatment compared with that observed in non-endemic countries or in non-immune ...
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The epidemiology and molecular epidemiology of Giardiasis in North West England
... the Giardia assemblage A multi-locus genotypes in the cases reporting owning a dog failed to find a common MLG between ...the Giardia cases and so no information on either presence of infection or the ...
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Investigation of Giardia intestinalis Genotypes among the Food Handlers of Qazvin, Iran
... with giardia and showing gastrointestinal symptoms were mostly infected with genotype AII rather than genotype ...with giardiasis, but without gastro- intestinal signs and symptoms, were exclusive- ly ...
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Molecular detection and identification of Giardia duodenalis in cattle of Urmia, northwest of Iran
... In Iran, although giardiasis has been reported in cattle in some regions, but there is not any data about G. duodenalis genotypes in cattle. Therefore, the main objective of the current study was to determine the ...
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Endemic Giardiasis and Day Care
... Giardia Positivity Rates, by Age in Day Care Centers Attended by White Children, 1981.. No.[r] ...
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Anthropozoonotic significance, risk factors and spatial distribution of Giardia spp. infections in quenda (Isoodon obesulus) in the greater Perth region, Western Australia
... of Giardia isolated from Perth quenda, it is considered that the main source of Giardia ...quenda. Giardia peramelis has been previously identified in quenda in Western Australia (Adams et ...2010). ...
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Rac Regulates Giardia lamblia Encystation by Coordinating Cyst Wall Protein Trafficking and Secretion
... the Giardia genome contains just a single Rho family GTPase, GlRac, and the entire signaling system ap- pears to be minimalistic compared to that of mammals (see Ta- ble S1 in the supplemental material) ...
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A new species of Giardia Künstler, 1882 (Sarcomastigophora: Hexamitidae) in hamsters
... scribed Giardia spp., including the three mammal- parasitizing Giardia, ...of Giardia, but also a mammal-parasitizing Giardia with the narrowest host range found so ...
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Assessment of methods for determining viability of Giardia spp in freshwater and seawater : a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science at Massey University
... In vivo Giardia muris and Giardia intestinalis cysts were assessed for viability at time intervals and different temperatures in two separate inactivation systems; chlorine at standard m[r] ...
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Assessment of methods for determining viability of Giardia spp in freshwater and seawater : a thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Science at Massey University
... In vivo Giardia muris and Giardia intestinalis cysts were assessed for viability at time intervals and different temperatures in two separate inactivation systems; chlorine at standard m[r] ...
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Differentiation of Giardia duodenalis from other Giardia spp by using polymerase chain reaction and gene probes
... While we have not tested all possible target Giardia and nontarget microorganisms found in water, we have tested sufficient numbers of Giardia and nonGiardia strains to conclude that the[r] ...
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