Preface and Introduction.- Section I: Taxonomy and Epidemiology of Giardia .- 1 Taxonomy of Giardia Species.- 2 Epidemiology of Giardiasis in Humans.- 3 Waterborne and Environmentally-Borne Giardiasis.- 4 Giardia in Pets and Farm Animals, and Their Zoonotic Potential.- Section II: Molecular Biology of Giardia .- 5 Genomics of Giardia .- 6 The Glycoproteins of Giardia .- 7 Mass Spectrometric Analysis of Phospholipids and Fatty Acids in Giardia lamblia .- 8 Giardia Metabolism.- Section III: Cellular Biology of Giardia .- 9 The Ultrastructure of Giardia During Growth and Differentiation.- 10 Cell Cycle Regulation and Cell Division in Giardia .- 11 The Giardia Mitosomes.- 12 Signaling Pathways in Giardia lamblia .- 13 Transcription and Recombination in Giardia .- 14 Intracellular Protein Trafficking.- 15 Post-transcriptional Gene Silencing and Translation in Giardia .- 16 Antigenic Variation in Giardia .- Section IV: Pathology, Treatment and Diagnostics of Giardia and the Host Immune Response.- 17 Interaction of Giardia with Host Cells.- 18 Primary Microtubule Structures in Giardia .- 19 Pathophysiological Processes and Clinical Manifestations of Giardiasis.- 20 Immunology of Giardiasis.- 21 Vaccination Against Giardia .- 22 Diagnosis of Human Giardiasis.- Section V: Methods for Giardia Research.- 23 Methods for Giardia Culture, Cryopreservation, Encystation, and Excystation In Vitro .- 24 Synchronization of Giardia .- 25 Methods for Giardia Transfection and Gene Expression.- 26 Biological Resource Centers for Giardia Research.