Human giardiasis: genotype linked differences in clinical symptomatology.

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Giardia duodenalis infection in humans can cause a variety of clinical symptoms. The relation between clinical symptomatology and the Giardia isolate genotype was studied in 18 Dutch patients infected with G. duodenalis who visited their general practitioner. Contrary to earlier studies, a 100% correlation between severity of diarrhoeal complaints and genotype was found: assemblage A isolates were solely detected...

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