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GIARDIA LAMBLIA Flashcards

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2ND PARASITOLOGY

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Giardia Lamblia

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Disease

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Giardiasis

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Modes of Transmission

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Fecal oral

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Clinical Pathogenic

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  • Cyst attaches to the duodenum and causes inflammation.
  • Occupy so much of the intestinal wall that they interfere with food absorption.
    -Non-bloody, foul-smelling diarrhea accompanied by nausea, anorexia, flatulence and abdominal cramps persisting for weeks or months.
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Treatment

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Metronidazole
Quinacrine hydrochloride

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Prevention

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Boiling and filtration of water

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Site of infections

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Stomach

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