title: Giardiasis--clinical and diagnostic perspective.
abstract: Fifty patients of chronic diarrhoea in the pediatric age group admitted in Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital were studied. Thirty cases were diagnosed to be suffering from giardiasis based on microscopy of fecal and/or duodenal fluid specimens. Fecal specimen microscopy missed two cases which were diagnosed by duodenal aspirate microscopy and vice-versa. All fecal specimens were negative on culture, while duodenal aspirate culture gave large number of false negative results. Serum immunoglobulin levels did not show significant changes. Thus, routine microscopic testing is presently the best means for early diagnosis of giardiasis.
authors.affiliation: Lady Hardinge Medical College and Kalawati Saran Children's Hospital, New Delhi-110 001.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Kapoor
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Chowdhary
authors.forename: V L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Malhotra
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Bhatt
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D016022:Case-Control Studies; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D016829:Giardia lamblia / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005873:Giardiasis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007136:Immunoglobulins / Q000097:blood; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male
chemical_list: D007136:Immunoglobulins