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Genotype of Giardia intestinalis isolates from children and dogs and its relationship to host origin.
Parasitology research - 1 Aug 2005
Eligio-García Leticia, Cortes-Campos Adrian, Jiménez-Cardoso Enedina
Abstract excerpt
The presence of human Giardia in several animals suggests a zoonotic transmission. We studied G. Intestinalis isolates obtained from: children with diarrhea (n=6), asymptomatic children (n=7), axenic cultures (n=7) and dogs (n=11). The sequence corresponding to 16 S rRNA was amplified by PCR, sequenced and compared with genotypes A, B and Dog sequences reported in the Gene Bank database. Results show that 9/20...
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