Bethlehem’s municipal water supply is free of giardia cysts, a parasite that affects the intestinal systems of humans and other warm-blooded animals. The state Department of Environmental Resources ...

On Dec. 23, 1983, an alert was sent to many Luzerne County residents: The water was not safe to drink. A microscopic organism, the giardia cyst, had contaminated what was believed to have been a ...

The recent occurrence of waterborne glardiasis outbreaks has spurred renewed interest in water filtration for cyst removal. Studies with cyst models and Giardia muris cysts suggest that properly ...

Giardia lamblia, a globally significant intestinal parasite, undergoes a complex transformation from its proliferative trophozoite stage to a dormant, environmentally resilient cyst. This process, ...

Although Giardia species trophozoites have been cryopreserved successfully, no report on the successful cryopreservation of cysts could be found. Using infectivity to Mongolian gerbils (Meriones ...

Few things ruin memories of a good camping or backpacking trip than developing abdominal pain, diarrhea, fatigue, or fever upon returning home. Perhaps resulting from drinking contaminated water from ...

Most of us in the valley have heard of the protozoan parasite giardia. Giardia is a common cause of diarrhea in dogs, cats and humans. It is a water-borne parasite when in the cyst stage of it’s life ...

Australian researchers have uncovered how a particular strain of a diarrhea-causing parasite managed to infect more animal ...

Australian researchers have uncovered how a particular strain of a diarrhea-causing parasite managed to infect more animal ...

VAIL, Colorado “-Snow is melting in Colorado’s Vail Valley, water is flowing and dogs are anxious to roam in the streams. Most of the people who live in Eagle County have heard of the protozoan ...

Years ago, I worked for a hunting guide on a river in the middle of Alaska. One of my duties was to drive a motorized canoe full of moose meat upstream to a gravel bar where he could fly it out. When ...