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Giardia attached to intestinal cells
This scanning electron microscopy image shows a Giardia parasite attached to the carpet-like microvilli of a layer of cultured human intestinal cells. Giardia is a major cause worldwide of diarrheal illness. In this issue of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Hansen and Fletcher (e169) show that Giardia can be forced to detach from cultured intestinal cells by subjecting them to "tonic shock."
Image Credit: Wendy R. Hansen
Citation: (2008) PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases Issue Image | Vol. 2(2) February 2008. PLoS Negl Trop Dis 2(2): ev02.i02. https://doi.org/10.1371/image.pntd.v02.i02
Published: February 27, 2008
Copyright: © 2008 Hansen. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
This scanning electron microscopy image shows a Giardia parasite attached to the carpet-like microvilli of a layer of cultured human intestinal cells. Giardia is a major cause worldwide of diarrheal illness. In this issue of PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, Hansen and Fletcher (e169) show that Giardia can be forced to detach from cultured intestinal cells by subjecting them to "tonic shock."
Image Credit: Wendy R. Hansen