Giardia lamblia is a strange-looking parasite that swims in the gut, spreads through stool, persists in contaminated water, and is responsible for more than 20,000 reported infections a year in the United States. Now it has finally spilled its genetic secrets.In the September 28, 2007, issue of the journal Science, an international team of researchers led by scientists at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, MA, and funded by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), one of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), describes the complete genetic sequence of the parasite.
