Letter: Outbreak of giardiasis.

An outbreak of foodborne giardiasis.

G LAMBLIA is recognized as an important cause of acute illness in human beings. Community-wide waterborne outbreaks of giardiasis . have been documented with increasing frequency,' ' and backpackers have become ill after drinking water from mountain streams. 6 ' 7 Giardiasis has also occurred among travelers to foreign countries, although the methods of transmission in these situations are not ...

Giardiasis in Bergen. Outbreak and clinical consequences

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The First Outbreak of Giardiasis with Drinking Water in Korea

OBJECTIVES To identify the pathogen of the diarrhea outbreak in a village in Jeollabuk province in Korea in April 2010. METHODS DNA extraction was performed from the 120 L of collected water, which was centrifuged at 10,000 x g for 30 min. PCR reactions were conducted in a total of 25 ul, which included PCR premix (GenDEPOT, Barker, TX, USA), 2 ul (∼100 ng) of extracted DNA, and 10 pmol of ea...

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