"Giardia lamblia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A species of parasitic EUKARYOTES that attaches itself to the intestinal mucosa and feeds on mucous secretions. The organism is roughly pear-shaped and motility is somewhat erratic, with a slow oscillation about the long axis.
| Descriptor ID |
D016829
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| MeSH Number(s) |
B01.237.385.400
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| Concept/Terms |
Giardia lamblia- Giardia lamblia
- Giardia lamblias
- Lamblia intestinalis
- Giardia duodenalis
- Giardia intestinalis
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2023 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Giardia lamblia" by people in Profiles.
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Epidemiology of giardiasis and assemblages A and B and effects on diarrhea and growth trajectories during the first 8 years of life: Analysis of a birth cohort in a rural district in tropical Ecuador. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2023 Nov; 17(11):e0011777.
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Impact of intestinal parasites on microbiota and cobalamin gene sequences: a pilot study. Parasit Vectors. 2020 Apr 19; 13(1):200.
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Comparison of Cytokine Responses in Ecuadorian Children Infected with Giardia, Ascaris, or Both Parasites. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2017 Jun; 96(6):1394-1399.
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Multiplexed Recombinase Polymerase Amplification Assay To Detect Intestinal Protozoa. Anal Chem. 2016 Feb 02; 88(3):1610-6.
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Giardia: both a harmless commensal and a devastating pathogen. J Clin Invest. 2013 Jun; 123(6):2352-4.
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A novel, multi-parallel, real-time polymerase chain reaction approach for eight gastrointestinal parasites provides improved diagnostic capabilities to resource-limited at-risk populations. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2013 Jun; 88(6):1041-7.
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Vitamin A supplementation modifies the association between mucosal innate and adaptive immune responses and resolution of enteric pathogen infections. Am J Clin Nutr. 2011 Mar; 93(3):578-85.
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Associations between mucosal innate and adaptive immune responses and resolution of diarrheal pathogen infections. Infect Immun. 2010 Mar; 78(3):1221-8.
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Improvement in detection of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli in patients with travelers' diarrhea by increasing the number of E. coli colonies tested. Am J Trop Med Hyg. 2009 Jan; 80(1):20-3.
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Sequence and structure evolved separately in a ribosomal ubiquitin variant. EMBO J. 2007 Jul 25; 26(14):3474-83.