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Definition of Genus Giardia
1. Noun. Flagellates parasitic in intestines of vertebrates.
Group relationships: Order Polymastigina, Polymastigina
Member holonyms: Giardia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Giardia
Literary usage of Genus Giardia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Animal Parasites of Man by Harold Benjamin Fantham, Maximilian Gustav Christian Carl Braun (1916)
"... should be placed in the genus Giardia, Kunstler, 1882. Bipartition occurs in
the encysted state. ..."
2. Collected Papers (1922)
"... which, according to the rules of nomenclature, would be correct, providing
that the mammalian genus Giardia is, indeed, identical with that originally ..."
3. Manual of Microbiologic Monitoring of Laboratory Animals by Kimberly Sue Waggie (1994)
"Agent: Giardia mûris (Phylum: Protozoa; Subphylum: Sarcomastigophora; Class:
Mastigophora; Genus: Giardia). Disease induced: Giardiasis. a. Morphology: b. ..."
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