There are 50 species of eastern Asian bitterling which have parasitic or mutualistic relationships with mussels such as Anodonta spp; Credit: Shutterstock Invasional meltdown is a lovely phrase used to describe many species which help each others ...
Associated Press CEO Tom Curley has gone on the offensive against Meltwater, a digital news-clipping service that he claims is ripping off copyrighted AP material and reselling it without paying a licensing fee. “Meltwater News is a parasitic ...
A 20-million-year-old bat fly was discovered in a mine in the Dominican Republic, the first fossilized fly of its type ever found. Its descendants are still around, sucking blood from modern bats, but scientists did not know how far back these parasites existed. But what’s even more enlightening is that this fly carried an ancient [...]
Background:
A waterborne outbreak of Giardia lamblia gastroenteritis led to a high prevalance of long-lasting fatigue and abdominal symptoms. The aim was to describe the clinical characteristics, disability and employmentloss in a case series of patients with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) after the infection.
Methods:
Patients who reported persistent fatigue, lowered functional capacity and sickness leave or delayed education after a large...
A biology lab at Washington University has just cracked the structure and function of a protein that plays a key role in the life of a parasite that killed 655,000 people in 2010. The protein is an enzyme that Plasmodium falciparum, the protozoan that causes the most lethal form of malaria, uses to make cell membrane. The protozoan cannot survive without this enzyme, but even though the enzyme has many lookalikes in other organisms, people do...
Giardiasis: Global Status 2010 edition
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Giardiasis
Giardiasis: Global Status is one in a series of GIDEON ebooks which summarize the status of individual infectious diseases, in every country of the world. Data are based on the GIDEON database (www.gideononline.com) which relies on standard text books, peer-review journals, Health Ministry reports and ProMED, supplemented by an ongoing search of the medical literature.Chapters are arranged...Read Full Story
Giardia and Cryptosporidium
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Giardiasis
Giardia and Cryptosporidium are both parasites of considerable global interest due to the gastrointestinal problems the organisms can cause in humans as well as domestic and wild animals. This book presents a comprehensive overview of recent research. Chapters discuss topics from taxonomy, nomenclature and evolution to molecular epidemiology, advances in diagnostics and zoonotic, human and animal health...Read Full Story
Giardia Lamblia in Water Supplies: Detection, Occurrence, and Removal (An AWWA technical resource book)
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Giardiasis
Giardia Lamblia in Water Supplies: Detection, Occurrence, and Removal (An AWWA technical resource book)
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21st Century Complete Medical Guide to Giardia Infection, Giardiasis, Parasites and Parasitic Disease, Authoritative Government Documents, Clinical … for Patients and Physicians (CD-ROM)
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Giardiasis
This up-to-date electronic book on CD-ROM provides the best collection available anywhere of official Federal government information and documents on the subject of giardia infection (giardiasis) and other important parasitic diseases. This CD-ROM...Read Full Story
GIARDIA AND GIARDIASIS: An entry from Gale’s World of Microbiology and Immunology
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Giardiasis
This digital document is an article from World of Microbiology and Immunology, brought to you by Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. The length of the article is 490 words. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital...Read Full Story
Giardia is caused by a parasite, and effects the intestinal system. "Giardia lamblia" is a flagellated protozoan parasite that infects the gastrointestinal tract of humans and also cats. The infection causes giardiasis, a type of gastroenteritis that causes severe diarrhea and abdominal cramps.