Giardia in older people.
METHODS
We report two cases of giardiasis in elderly women. Neither patient had been abroad recently and neither had diarrhoea at the time of diagnosis. In the first case, an extensive gastrointestinal cancer work-up was carried out before the diagnosis was made.


CONCLUSIONS
It is important to consider possible infective causes in older patients who have anaemia and weight loss.
Cusack
M A
MA
University Department of Geriatric Medicine, Third Floor, Academic Centre, Llandough Hospital, Penlan Road, Penarth CF64 2XX, South Glamorgan, UK.
O'Mahony
M S
MS
Woodhouse
K
K
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000740:Anemia / Q000175:diagnosis; D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D005872:Giardia / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005873:Giardiasis / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D015431:Weight Loss