Giardiasis. Complex therapy

AUTHORS : Shehab L.F. | Shehab H.Yu.

RELEVANT UNIVERSITIES : Tver, Russia; Saida, Lebanon

YEAR : 2001 | Category : Method of treatment

The causative agent of giardiasis – Giardia lamblia (in our country, the name Lamblia intestinalis is retained) is a protozoan that lives in the lumen of the human small intestine. Giardia is also affected by various types of animals: cats, dogs, rabbits, guinea pigs. They are found in the intestines of flies and cockroaches. The source of the invasion is humans and, less often, animals. The transmission mechanism is fecal-oral, the ways are contact, food, water, and chlorination of water does not kill lamblia cysts.