Giardia

Giardia Lamblia.

Giardia infection in cats.

The protozoon Giardia duodenalis is a common gastrointestinal parasite of cats. While most Giardia-infected cats are asymptomatic, acute small bowel diarrhea, occasionally with concomitant weight loss, may occur. Giardia poses a diagnostic challenge, but newer tests, including a commercially available ELISA kit, have improved clinicians' ability to obtain an accurate diagnosis. Several treatmen...

Giardia and Giardiasis

The review summarizes the information related to contemporary taxonomy of species within the Giardia genus. The established genotypes of Giardia duodenalis are presented. Data from research carried out on the main aspects of epidemiology, pathogenesis, clinical signs, diagnosis and treatment of giardiasis in humans and animals are analyzed. The major subjects of interest for future investigatio...

A homage to Giardia

What are we doing here, where do we come from, and where are we going? Darwin answered many of these questions by proposing that living organisms owe their characters to the successful reproduction of their ancestors. But Darwin’s ideas had relatively little impact on our understanding of how organisms reproduce. Like Lamark, Darwin conceived that hereditary traits were collected from different...

Giardia: overview and update.

Giardia is a protozoan flagellate that was first observed by chymotrypsin and trypsin, producing two trophozoites (vegetative stage) from each cyst [6, 7]. The trophozoites replicate in Van Leeuwenhoek in 1681 and more fully described by Lamb in 1859. It was initially thought to be a commensal in humans, the crypts of the duodenum and upper jejunum and reproduce asexually by binary fission. Som...