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Giardia lamblia carriage in Israeli Bedouin infants: risk factors and consequences.
- Source :
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Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America [Clin Infect Dis] 2000 Mar; Vol. 30 (3), pp. 419-24. - Publication Year :
- 2000
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Abstract
- Giardiasis is a common protozoan infection, with varying clinical manifestations. We investigated the associations between Giardia lamblia carriage and environmental, family, illness, and growth characteristics. Bedouin infants (n=234) were followed from birth to age 18-23 months. At monthly home visits, stool samples were obtained, history of illness was determined, and an environmental assessment was done. The comparisons presented are between 4 groups defined by length of carriage of G. lamblia. Study children had a mean+/-SD of 4.1+/-2.9 diarrhea episodes. No illness, environmental, or family characteristics were associated with length of carriage. Significant differences were found in weight-for-age and weight-for-height z scores between the never-positive-for-G. lamblia group and all other carriage groups combined. Faltering growth was shown to be subsequent to G. lamblia infection rather than preceding it. Our findings confirm that G. lamblia carriage is not associated with diarrhea. However, the effect on growth deserves further investigation.
- Subjects :
- Adolescent
Adult
Animals
Carrier State parasitology
Diarrhea parasitology
Feces parasitology
Female
Giardiasis parasitology
Giardiasis pathology
Humans
Infant
Infant, Newborn
Israel epidemiology
Risk Factors
Arabs
Carrier State ethnology
Giardia lamblia isolation & purification
Giardiasis ethnology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1058-4838
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 10722422
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1086/313722