Giardia lamblia, a globally significant intestinal parasite, undergoes a complex transformation from its proliferative trophozoite stage to a dormant, environmentally resilient cyst.

Giardia lamblia is a protozoan parasite that can be contracted from drinking contaminated water from streams or lakes, or from practicing poor backcountry personal hygiene. Frances Hartogh/Get Wild ...

Humans pick up the disease by swallowing the resting stage of Giardia, the cyst. Cysts are little tablets that exit an infected animal’s body along with feces.

Giardia lamblia, one of the most common human parasites in the United States, causes more than 20,000 intestinal infections a year, often through contact with contaminated drinking or swimming ...

Giardiasis is an intestinal infection caused by a microscopic parasite called Giardia intestinali. It is one of the most common causes of waterborne disease in the world.

Despite more than a century of study, they were not known to have sex, suggesting they might represent a premeiotic stage in eukaryotic evolution. Logsdon and colleagues ran BLAST searches on the ...

On Dec. 23, 1983, an alert was sent to many Luzerne County residents: The water was not safe to drink. A microscopic organism, the giardia cyst, had contaminated what was believed to have been a ...

Based on your symptoms, it certainly sounds like you may have picked up Giardia lamblia, the waterborne parasite that causes "beaver fever." Giardia is spread by small cysts found in contaminated ...