| giardiasis and other intestinal parasitic infections in a manitoba residential school for the mentally retarded. | a case of severely symptomatic giardiasis in a school for the mentally retarded prompted an epidemiologic survey of the institution. the rate of parasitic infection in the children were just under 50%. multiple infections were common and one child harboured five different protozoa. the yield included known pathogens (giardia lamblia, metorchis conjunctus and diphyllobothrium sp.), protozoa of potential pathogenicity (dientamoeba fragilis) and other protozoa, the significance of which has yet to ... | 1980 | 7363211 |