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On the Web
- CDC Division of Parasitic Diseases - Giardiasis - Factsheets and articles with cause, risk factors, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.
- eMedicine Health - Giardiasis - Consumer health resource center providing information on the causes, symptoms, and treatment of giardiasis.
- Giardiasis Facts - Factsheet with cause, prevention, symptoms, and treatment.
- Kidshealth: Giardiasis - Features cause, symptoms, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.
- MedicineNet: Giardiasis - Doctor produced consumer health information including what is giardiasis, who is at risk, signs and symptoms, diagnosis, treatment and prevention.
- Giardiasis - Beaver Fever - Fact sheet on the disease with cause, transmission, prevention, and treatment.
- eMedicine - Giardiasis - Article by Andre Pennardt, MD FACEP.
- eMedicine - Giardiasis - Article by Brooks D Cash.
- MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia: Giardiasis - Features cause, diagnosis, tests, symptoms, and prevention.
- Giardiasis - Familydoctor.org - Factsheet with cause, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.
Wikipedia Articles
- Giardiasis - | Image = Giardia lamblia SEM 8698 lores.jpg
- Quinacrine - Quinacrine (trade name: Atabrine) is a drug with a number of different medical applications being initially used in the 1930s as an antimalarial drug. It has also been used as an antibiotic in the treatment of Giardiasis (an intestinal parasite), and in research as an inhibitor of phospholipase A2.
- Diplomonad - The diplomonads are a group of flagellates, most of which are parasitic. They include most notably Giardia lamblia, which causes giardiasis in humans.
- Giardia lamblia - Giardia lamblia (synonymous with Lamblia intestinalis and Giardia duodenalis) is a flagellated protozoan parasite that colonises and reproduces in the small intestine, causing giardiasis. The giardia parasite attaches to the epithelium by a ventral adhesive disc, and reproduces via binary fissionOxford textbook of Medicine, Fourth Edition, Volume 1.