Critical comparison of Giardia duodenalis from Australia and Switzerland using isoenzyme electrophoresis.

doi:10.1016/0001-706x(91)90004-4

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Critical comparison of Giardia duodenalis from Australia and Switzerland using isoenzyme electrophoresis.

Acta tropica - 1 Dec 1991

Meloni B P, Thompson R C, Strandén A M, Köhler P, Eckert J

Abstract excerpt

Isoenzyme electrophoresis using 13 enzyme systems was applied to 31 Australian and 7 Swiss isolates of Giardia of human, cat, cattle, dog, sheep and rat origin. The Portland (ATCC No. 30888) reference strain was also included. The 39 isolates were divided into 22 different zymodemes. These consis...

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Animals
Australia
Cats
Cattle
Dogs
Electrophoresis, Starch Gel
Genetic Variation
Giardia
Giardiasis
Humans
Isoenzymes
Phenotype
Rats
Sheep
Switzerland
Zoonoses

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