Utility of direct genetic probes for the rapid presumptive identification of positive blood cultures

✍ Scribed by S. Whitehead; S. Damm; N. Cimolai; Members of the Microbiology Program

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 129 KB
• Volume: 28
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-9120
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-9120(95)91484-k

✦ Synopsis

Glardlasis is the commonest gastrointestinal parasitic disease in children. The protozoan adheres to the mucesni layer of the small intestine producing symptoms of diarrhea, malaise, abdominal pain; malabsorption and, in some cases, failure to thrive. The patbogenesis and pathophysiology of disease is net understood. Disaceharidase deficiency is clinically well-recognized in this disease and, although other n~,hantcm~ of tissue injury are possible, it has been suggested that diarrhea is based on an absorption defect.

To investigate this further we used the Mengolian gerbil animal model to study the effect of infection with two isolates of Gianiia duodenalis (syn G.lamblia) on enzymes of