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Genotyping of Giardia intestinalis from domestic and wild animals in Japan using glutamete dehydrogenase gene sequencing.
Veterinary parasitology - 5 Nov 2005
Itagaki Tadashi, Kinoshita Shizuka, Aoki Mikiko, Itoh Naoyuki, Saeki Hideharu, Sato Naoto, Uetsuki Junya, Izumiyama Shinji, Yagita Kenji, Endo Takuro
Abstract excerpt
To determine the genotypes of Giardia intestinalis from domestic and wild animals in Japan, Giardia isolates obtained from feces of 24 dogs kept in households and breeding kennels, three companion cats, five dairy calves and three wild monkeys, Macaca fuscata, were genotyped using the 177 bp sequence of the glutamete dehydrogenase gene (gdh). The genotypes were assemblages A, C, D or A/D for dog isolates,...
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