Giardiasis in Dogs

Influence of Enterococcus faecium SF68 probiotic on giardiasis in dogs.

BACKGROUND Giardiasis is a common, potentially zoonotic disease, and dogs often harbor and shed cysts without showing clinical signs. Treatment with the probiotic Enterococcus faecium SF68 has been shown to stimulate mucosal and systemic immunity in a variety of animal models and in young dogs, and to reduce giardial cyst and antigen shedding in rodents. HYPOTHESIS Adult dogs with chronic nat...

Comparison of two techniques for diagnosis of giardiasis in dogs.

Giardiasis is an intestinal parasitosis affecting dogs and able to infect human beings. Its diagnosis can not be done with the only clinical signs, the main of which is non characteristic diarrhoea. It implicates to perform further tests to detect the parasite. The zinc sulfate concentration technique (ZSCT) is the more effective one if performed on two or three successive days. Fecal ELISA kit...

Giardiasis.

The recent near-epidemic incidence of Giardia lamblia infection in visitors to the Soviet Union illustrates the importance of this intestinal flagellate as a cause of diarrhea in travelers worldwide. Clinical states range from the asymptomatic cyst-passing stage, to the chronic or subacute stage mimicking gallbladder or ulcer disease, to the transient or, rarer, persistent acute stage with stea...

Giardiasis

Evaluation of a rapid Cryptosporidium/Giardia immunochromatographic test for diagnosis of giardiasis in dogs

The aim of this study was to evaluate the performance of the RIDA® Quick Cryptosporidium/Giardia-Combi test (R-Biopharm AG) as a rapid method for the routine diagnosis of giardiasis in dogs. Compared to an ELISA coproantigen test (Prospect® Giardia Microplate Assay)), the immunochromatographic test had a sensitivity of 83 %, a specificity of 79 %, a positive predictive value of 33 %, and a nega...