From: aley@alumni.caltech.edu (Stephen B. Aley) Newsgroups: alt.binaries.pictures.misc Subject: Giardia (parasite) Scanning EM GIF [1/1] Date: 2 May 1994 22:46:25 GMT Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena NNTP-Posting-Host: alumni.caltech.edu X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.0 #4 (NOV) This picture is posted in response to requests to have a look at Giardia, a human intestinal parasite of particular concern to backpackers and hikers. This is a Scanning Electron Micrograph (SEM) of a Giardia muris trophozoite. It is taken from "Giardia and Giardiasis", 1984, by Erlandsen and Meyer.