Giardia: Both a harmless commensal and a devastating pathogen

Journal of Clinical Investigation

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 2352-2354

  DuPont, Herbert L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE IMMUNITY; APOPTOSIS; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; GROWTH RETARDATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOGLOBULIN DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; MALNUTRITION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PERSISTENT INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RURAL AREA; SMALL INTESTINE MUCOSA;

EID: 84878603928     PISSN: 00219738     EISSN: 15588238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1172/JCI69932     Document Type: Review

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