Giardia duodenalis: biology and pathogenesis

RD Adam - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
Giardia duodenalis captured the attention of Leeuwenhoek in 1681 while he was examining
his own diarrheal stool, but, ironically, it did not really gain attention as a human pathogen …

Molecular testing for clinical diagnosis and epidemiological investigations of intestinal parasitic infections

JJ Verweij, CR Stensvold - Clinical microbiology reviews, 2014 - Am Soc Microbiol
Over the past few decades, nucleic acid-based methods have been developed for the
diagnosis of intestinal parasitic infections. Advantages of nucleic acid-based methods are …

Determinants and Impact of Giardia Infection in the First 2 Years of Life in the MAL-ED Birth Cohort

ET Rogawski, LA Bartelt, JA Platts-Mills… - Journal of the …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Background. Giardia are among the most common enteropathogens detected in children in
low-resource settings. We describe here the epidemiology of infection with Giardia in the first …

A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of the Association Between Giardia lamblia and Endemic Pediatric Diarrhea in Developing Countries

K Muhsen, MM Levine - Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We performed a systematic literature review and meta-analysis examining the association
between diarrhea in young children in nonindustrialized settings and Giardia lamblia …

[HTML][HTML] Advances in understanding Giardia: determinants and mechanisms of chronic sequelae

LA Bartelt, RB Sartor - F1000prime reports, 2015 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Giardia lamblia is a flagellated protozoan that is the most common cause of intestinal
parasitic infection in children living in resource-limited settings. The pathogenicity of Giardia …

The intersection of immune responses, microbiota, and pathogenesis in giardiasis

MY Fink, SM Singer - Trends in parasitology, 2017 - cell.com
Giardia lamblia is one of the most common infectious protozoans in the world. Giardia rarely
causes severe life-threatening diarrhea, and may even have a slight protective effect in this …

Interactions of diarrhea, pneumonia, and malnutrition in childhood: recent evidence from developing countries

EP Schlaudecker, MC Steinhoff… - Current opinion in …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Interactions of diarrhea, pneumonia, and malnutrition in chi... : Current Opinion in Infectious
Diseases Interactions of diarrhea, pneumonia, and malnutrition in childhood: recent evidence …

Zoonotic enteric protozoa

RCA Thompson, A Smith - Veterinary parasitology, 2011 - Elsevier
A growing number of enteric protozoan species are considered to have zoonotic potential.
Their clinical impact varies and in many cases is poorly defined. Similarly, the epidemiology …

Increased sampling reveals novel lineages of Entamoeba: consequences of genetic diversity and host specificity for taxonomy and molecular detection

CR Stensvold, M Lebbad, EL Victory, JJ Verweij… - Protist, 2011 - Elsevier
To expand the representation for phylogenetic analysis, ten additional complete Entamoeba
small-subunit rRNA gene sequences were obtained from humans, non-human primates …

Intestinal parasites, anemia and nutritional status in young children from transitioning Western Amazon

RC Marques, JVE Bernardi, CC Dorea… - International journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Young children are particularly vulnerable to the chronic sequelae of anemia, including poor
nutritional status. The aim of this study was to assess intestinal parasitic-infections and …