Giardiasis is one of the most common parasitic diseases in the United States with over 15 400 cases reported in 2005. A survey was conducted by The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) in collaboration with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to evaluate the knowledge of obstetricians and gynecologists regarding the diagnosis and treatment of giardiasis. T...

Objetivo: Describir la efectividad del tratamiento antiparasitario intestinal brindado a niños de cuatro nueve años atendidos en el centro Salud Universidad Quindío entre Julio 2017 marzo 2018.
 Materiales y métodos: Estudio observacional prospectivo. Se extrajeron datos historias clínicas pacientes con rango edad 4 9 años, quienes consultaron Centro se diagnosticaron mediante coprológico ...

BACKGROUND Metronidazole is the most commonly used drug for the treatment of giardiasis in humans. In spite of its therapeutic efficacy for giardiasis, low patient compliance, especially in children, side effects, and the emergence of metronidazole-resistant strains may restrict its use. Albendazole has been used to treat Giardia duodenalis infections in recent years. However, efficacy studies ...

To determine the prevalence of giardiasis in Gambian children with chronic diarrhoea and to assess their response to treatment, 31 children with chronic diarrhoea and malnutrition were investigated for giardiasis using a combination of serology (specific antigiardia IgM antibody) and microscopy of faeces and jejunal biopsy specimens. Fourteen of 31 children with chronic diarrhoea had giardiasis...

Objectives: To determine the prevalence rate of giardiasis among adults and children, males and females of various socio-economic levels in the city of Amman, Jordan. Patients and Methods: All individuals (510) visiting Primary Health Care Centers (PHCCs), were recruited in the study. For each, stool samples were examined microscopically by the formalin ethyl acetate concentration method, and t...

T lymphocyte-mediated pathogenesis is common to a variety of enteropathies, including giardiasis, cryptosporidiosis, bacterial enteritis, celiac's disease, food anaphylaxis, and Crohn's disease. In giardiasis as well as in these other disorders, a diffuse loss of microvillous brush border, combined or not with villus atrophy, is responsible for disaccharidase insufficiencies and malabsorption o...

AIM To investigate the spatial relationship between climate variability and cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis notifications in New Zealand between 1997 and 2006. METHODS Negative binomial regression was used to analyse spatial relationships between cryptosporidiosis and giardiasis notifications in New Zealand between 1997 and 2006, and climatological average rainfall and temperature at the Cen...

Even though treatment of symptomatic cases as well as improving hygiene and sanitation conditions decrease giardiasis in underdeveloped and/or developing countries, Giardia duodenalis infection is still frequently encountered especially in children living in crowded conditions leading to public health problems. We studied the prevalence of G. duodenalis infection in 274 asymptomatic Thai boy or...

OBJECTIVES To describe the major characteristics of reported notifiable gastrointestinal illness (NGI) data in the Northwest Territories (NWT) from January 1991 through December 2008. DESIGN Descriptive analysis of 708 reported cases of NGI extracted from the Northwest Territories Communicable Disease Registry (NWT CDR). SETTING Primary, secondary and tertiary health care centres across all...

Giardiasis and soil-transmitted helminthiasis (STH) are parasitic diseases that are among the major health concerns observed in economically disadvantaged populations of developing countries, and have clear social and environmental bases. In Brazil, there is a lack of epidemiologic data concerning these infections in the study area, whose inhabitants have plenty of access to health care service...