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    include: Giardia ardeae Giardia beckeri Giardia beltrani Giardia botauri Giardia bovis Giardia bradypi Giardia canis Giardia caprae Giardia cati Giardia caviae...
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    Giardia duodenalis, also known as Giardia intestinalis and Giardia lamblia, is a flagellated parasitic protozoan microorganism of the genus Giardia that...
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    Giardiasis is a parasitic disease caused by Giardia duodenalis (also known as G. lamblia and G. intestinalis). Infected individuals who experience symptoms...
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  • Giardia microti is a species of Diplomonad parasitic protozoan. Its hosts mainly consist of rodents in the family Cricetidae, which includes voles, mice...
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    are a group of flagellates, most of which are parasitic. They include Giardia duodenalis, which causes giardiasis in humans. They are placed among the...
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    bacterial RNA than to eukaryote RNA. Some eukaryotes, such as the metamonads Giardia and Trichomonas, and the amoebozoan Pelomyxa, appear to lack mitochondria...
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  • Trophozoite (section Giardia)
    protozoa such as malaria-causing Plasmodium falciparum and those of the Giardia group. The complementary form of the trophozoite state is the thick-walled...
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    called a mitosome. Most are harmless except for Giardia, Hexamita salmonis, and Histomonas meleagridis. Giardia causes diarrhea, Hexamita salmonis is a fish...
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    amenable to treatment include Shigella Salmonella typhi, and Giardia species. In those with Giardia species or Entamoeba histolytica, tinidazole treatment is...
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    Parasitic Excavata (Giardia lamblia)...
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  • Giardiasis is a disease caused by infection with the protozoan Giardia lamblia. Infection with Giardia can produce diarrhea, gas, and abdominal pain in some people...
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    amoebae Cryptosporidiosis Cyclospora cayetanensis Entamoeba histolytica Giardia lamblia Sarcocystis hominis Sarcocystis suihominis Toxoplasma Several foods...
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    About 10 to 20 percent of cases are due to norovirus. Protozoa such as Giardia may cause longer term disease. The risk is greatest in the first two weeks...
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    Cronobacter spp Viral pathogens Enterovirus Hepatitis A Norovirus Rotavirus Parasitic pathogens Cryptosporidium Entamoeba histolytica Giardia Trichinella v t e...
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    benzimidazole anthelmintic used against gastrointestinal parasites including: giardia, roundworms, hookworms, whipworms, the tapeworm genus Taenia (but not effective...
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    Leishmania, unicellular organisms which cause leishmaniasis Entamoeba and Giardia, which cause intestinal infections (dysentery and diarrhoea) Multicellular...
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    The dicer protein from Giardia intestinalis....
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    passerina (L.) Coss. & Germ. Synonyms List Daphne passerina (L.) E.H.L.Krause Giardia arvensis (Lam.) C.Gerber Ligia passerina (L.) Fasano Passerina annua Wikstr...
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  • who have previously received prolonged antibiotic treatment parasites: Giardia lamblia (with a high frequency of infestation in the population, but not...
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  • miRNA processing protein dicer is found in Giardia. A 26 nucleotide RNA, miR2, is processed from the Giardia lamblia snoRNA GlsR17 by dicer. MiR2 is a...
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    Protozoa serve as natural hosts. There is only one species in this genus: Giardia lamblia virus. Viruses in Giardiavirus are non-enveloped, with icosahedral...
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    periodontitis treatment. Metronidazole is used to treat infections of Giardia in dogs, cats, and other companion animals, but it does not reliably clear...
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    Significant pathogens commonly present in the developed world include Giardia, Cryptosporidium, Shigella, hepatitis A virus, Escherichia coli, and enterovirus...
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    and hence mating. To cite one example, the common intestinal parasite Giardia intestinalis was once considered to be a descendant of a protist lineage...
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    Hexamita is a genus of parasitic diplomonads. It is related to Giardia. H. columbae and H. meleagridis live in the intestines of birds. H. muris and H...
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    shown to likely have, or once have had, this capability. As one example, Giardia intestinalis, a common intestinal parasite, was previously considered to...
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  • and parasites (protozoa). The most commonly reported are the protozoa Giardia and Cryptosporidium. Other infectious agents may play a larger role than...
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    Cronobacter spp Viral pathogens Enterovirus Hepatitis A Norovirus Rotavirus Parasitic pathogens Cryptosporidium Entamoeba histolytica Giardia Trichinella v t e...
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    Greece, and Rome. In early modern times, Antonie van Leeuwenhoek observed Giardia lamblia in his microscope in 1681, while Francesco Redi described internal...
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    bacteria Francisella tularensis, which causes tularemia; the protozoan Giardia duodenalis, which causes giardiasis (beaver fever); and the beaver beetle...
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