Giardiasis In Mice

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

Quantitative histology in giardiasis.

The Weibel graticule was used to assess quantitatively histological changes in proximal jejunal mucosal biopsies from patients with Giardia lamblia infections. Most had malabsorption. A group of patients who had mild abdominal symptoms but no intestinal infection and normal absorption were the controls. There were significant differences in mean surface area (SA) measurements between patients w...

Giardiasis in Children

Opinions are divided regarding the pathological manifestations of the flagellates. Alvarez, Silverton and Bernardino are of opinion that the fact that the infection as well as the symptom disappeared after treatment with atebrin proved beyond doubt the pathogenicity of the flagellates. Chopra et al. (1939) from a routine study of the stools of the patients, the symptoms and the response to trea...

Gastric giardiasis.

AIMS To assess the prevalence of gastric giardiasis in patients undergoing upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, and to define the clinicopathological correlates of gastric Giardia lamblia infection. METHODS Consecutive gastric biopsy specimens (n = 15,023) from 11,085 patients, taken at Feltre City Hospital (north eastern Italy) from January 1986 to December 1991, were histologically and immunoc...