Resumo

TORRES, Dinorah; NUNEZ, Fidel  e  FINLAY, Carlos. Aislamiento y axenización de Giardia lamblia en niños procedentes de círculos infantiles de Ciudad de La Habana. Rev Cubana Invest Bioméd [online]. 1996, vol.15, n.2. ISSN 0864-0300.

It is reported the isolation of Giardia lamblia in children from three day care centers in Havana City. The 2,8 % of the isolations were obtained by using the disencystment in vitro, whereas using gerbil as an animal model for the parasite disencystment 97,2 % was attained. This result shows the superiority ot he latter.

Palavras-chave : GIARDIA LAMBLIA [isolation and purification]; CULTURE MEDIA; CHILD.