#giardia — Public Fediverse posts

🦠 Are tiny gut protists rewriting what we know about “good” and “bad” microbes?

🔗 Structure analysis of human gut microbiota associated with single-celled gut protists using Next-Generation Sequencing of 16S and 18S rRNA genes. Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csbj.2025.06.006

📚 CSBJ: https://www.csbj.org/

#Microbiome #GutHealth #Metagenomics #Protists #Blastocystis #Giardia #NGS #Microbiota #MicrobialEcology #NGS #ComputationalBiology #MolecularBiology

@stevewfolds

Read an article, decades ago, in the newsletter of the South Bay Speleological Society (?), I think,...

Telling a story of a fellow who peeked into a roadside cave with a friend, almost stepped into a pool of very still water, and tapped the water with the end of their mini maglight flashlight to show their friend.

Then later held the damp light with their mouth.

And got infected with #giardia .

Most of the article was just about their long diagnosis and treatment ordeal.

3-25 days to get giardia. Death by dehydration or giardia? Pick giardia? Also, if you're hiking/backpacking out there, take a water filter and/or purification tablets. The purification tablets weigh nothing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giardia#Infection

#giardia

#cats have parasites, #giardia
Had to wash them. They are so miserable
#Caturday

My #puppy is very #sick with #giardia. I am so glad I ignored my husband's downplaying of the symptoms and took him to the #vet today. He should be alright in about two weeks thanks to 3 medications.

It’s summer and that means disturbing swim advisories. Here’s our top 5 - Enlarge / A 2-year-old enjoys the spray of water in a splash pad in Los... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1949894 #healthdepartment #clevelandclinic #e.colio157 #norovirus #shigella #science #giardia #health #crypto #safety #lakes #water #pool #cdc

25-May-2023
Early toilets reveal dysentery in Old Testament #Jerusalem

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/990044

#science #archaeology #dysentery #giardia