History

=History=



Giardia lamblia (known as G. intestinalis or G. duodenalis) was discovered in 1681 by Dutch microscopist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek by examining one of his own stools under his single lens microscope. Leeuwenhoek is reported as saying "... wherein I have sometimes also seen animalcules a-moving very prettily ... albeit they made but slow progress." ("Giardiasis", 2003).

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