cigolott at nbnet.nb.ca wrote:
>In message
><oobarrig.120.33176AD3 at pop.service.ohio-state.edu> -
>oobarrig at pop.service.ohio-state.edu (Omar O. Barriga)
>writes:
>>
>>>Does anyone out there have any information on this parasite :
>>>>>DIENTAMOEBA FRAGILIS trophozoites
>>
The troubling aspect of this is
>where these folks picked up a tropical organism with no
>signs of foreign contact.....
I live in Adelaide Australia (definitely not tropical) and
Dientamoeba fragilis is the second most common protozoan pathogen
(behind Giardia) reported from faecal samples. It is regarded most
micrbiologists here as a pathogen, especially if the patient has
symptoms.
