Giardia: overview and update

Clinical Infectious Diseases

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 545-550

  Ortega, Ynes R ^a   Adam, Rodney D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENT; WATER;

ANIMAL; DIARRHEA; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FECES; FEMALE; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; ANTIPROTOZOAL AGENTS; DIARRHEA; FECES; FEMALE; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; MALE; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PREGNANCY; WATER;

EID: 0031227808     PISSN: 10584838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/513745     Document Type: Article

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