Immunology of giardiasis.
Symptoms of giardiasis vary widely - partly owing to host characteristics and partly, perhaps, to different 'strains' of the parasite. In parallel, the immune response to Giardia also varies - involving humoral and cellular components both in the serum and the intestinal mucosa. In this article, Neal denHollander, Doone Riley and Dean Befus take a critical look at accumulating information about Giardia immunology, and discuss how the miscellany of factors may contribute to the immunopathology of the disease.
University of Calgary Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases Calgary, Alberta, Canada T2N 4N1.
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