Publication Date:
1983-09-23
Description:
Giardia lamblia, a common pathogenic intestinal parasite of humans, was rapidly killed by exposure to normal human milk in vitro. The killing did not depend on secretory immunoglobulin A. Entamoeba histolytica, the dysentery amoeba, was also killed by normal human milk. Giardia-cidal activity cochromatographed with an unusual lipase that is present in the milk of humans but not of lower mammals. Human milk may play a protective role in infants exposed to this parasite.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Gillin, F D -- Reiner, D S -- Wang, C S -- AI19863/AI/NIAID NIH HHS/ -- HD14104/HD/NICHD NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1983 Sep 23;221(4617):1290-2.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6310751" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Entamoeba histolytica/growth & development
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Entamoebiasis/prevention & control
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Female
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Giardia/growth & development
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Giardiasis/*prevention & control
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Humans
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Immunoglobulin A, Secretory/immunology
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Intestines/parasitology
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Milk, Human/*parasitology
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Trichomonas Infections/prevention & control
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Trichomonas vaginalis/growth & development
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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