Image de Giardia

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At a magnification of 1000X, this trichrome-stained photomicrograph revealed the morphologic characteristics of a blue-stained Giardia intestinalis protozoan trophozoite (center). In the small intestine, the protozoan cysts release trophozoites, with each cyst producing two trophozoites. Trophozoites multiply by longitudinal binary fission, remaining in the lumen of the proximal small bowel where they can be free, or attached to the mucosa by a ventral sucking disk. As the trophozoites mature, they are simultaneously migrating towards the colon, whereupon, they once again become thick-walled cysts, and are in this way, passed in the host’s stool into the environment. As cysts, these protozoan parasites can survive for many months until they are accidentally ingested by another unfortunate host.
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