To the editor: The excellent and timely editorial by Dr. John S. Bennett (Can Med Assoc 1
114: 95, 1976) on the treatment of giardiasis stresses that this disease is by no means …

LEEUWENHOEK is credited with describingGiardiain his stool in 1681. 1 It was redescribed
in 1859, placed in the genusGiardia, and calledGiardia lambliain 1915. For many years this …

Leeuwenhoek in 1675, in examining his own stool, saw and described the protozoan now
known as Giardia lamblia. 1 In 1859 Lambl described it under the name Cercomonas …

The pathogenicity ofGiardiahas always been a debatable question. Without citing any
arguments, we record a case that would seem to prove that here at least it can be …

Sir.—Drs Murphy and Nelson erred in their article" FivevTen Days' Therapy With
Furazolidone for Giardiasis"(Journal1983; 137: 267-270). In listing the three drugs available …

The wife's diarrhea increasedsubstan¬ tially within 24 hours of the immunization
procedures. She had no fever or aching but her watery diarrhea became severe, with 12 to …

I n the absence of standard methods for per-forming in-vitro sensitivity testing, the
management of symptomatic giardiasis, as for most parasitic infections, is empiric. Treatment …

Of 70 patients with giardiasis, 58 (83%) had been traveling outside of the United States
when symptoms began. Characteristic complaints consisted of nausea, weight loss …

We studied a case of giardiasis involving an otherwise healthy 44-year-old woman who had
not traveled extensively. Epidemiologic investigation showed that the source of infection was …

Case. 1.? Mrs. B. has been suffering from looseness of bowels and flatulence for the past
two years. Stools examined in January last showed a heavy infection with Giardia lamblia …