Abstract
The study consisted of forty-one patients hospitalized at the Child Health Department of the Gadjah Mada Hospital in Yogyakarta: 24 children were suffering from PCM with a body weight of more than 60% of the Harvard standard and 17 children from PCM with a body weight of less than 60% of the Harvard standard.
 The stools of these patients were examined for Giardia lamblia. The result was I6 (39.02%) positive. The Lipiodol Absorption Test of the patients with Giardia lamblia revealed :
 
 40% from the PCM with a body weight of more than 60% of the Harvard standard were negative.
 8I.82% from the PCM with a body weight of less than 60% of the Harvard standard were negative.
 
 The lower the nutritional status the higher the risk for Giardia infection.
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