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| What is the key points of the life cycle and prepatent period of Giardia?
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- Simple life cycle
- Direct life cycle
- Reproduce by binary fission
- 5-6 day prepatent period
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| How do both people and animals become infected by Giardia?
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- Water bourne transmission
- Direct faecal-oral transmission
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| How would you diagnose a Giardia infection?
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- The cysts are heavy and do not float well in saturated sodium chloride solution
- Cysts excretion is intermittent so faeces need to be collected and sampled over 3 days
- Cyst antigen can be detected in faeces by an immunoassay
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