Illness and reservoirs associated with Giardia lamblia infection in rural Egypt: the case against treatment in developing world environments of high endemicity.

Sullivan PS, DuPont HL, Arafat RR, Thornton SA, Selwyn BJ, el Alamy MA, Zaki AM

Program in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, University of Texas Medical School, Houston 77030.

Article type: Curated - Canary ID: 1868

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Cause and Effect Analysis	Interspecies susceptibility data	Shared exposures with humans	Shared outcomes with humans	Gene sequence data
Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	No

Study type	N	Routes	Sampling	Controls	Timing
cohort	97	ingestion	-	yes	repeated

Exposures	Giardia lamblia
Outcomes	Giardiasis
Species	Cattle Ducks Goats Human Sheep
Locations	Egypt Ash Sharq¿yah Bilbeis (second-order administrative division)

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