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Identification of zoonotic Giardia genotypes in marsupials in Australia.
Experimental parasitology - 1 Sept 2008
Thompson Jacqui, Yang Rongchang, Power Michelle, Hufschmid Jasmin, Beveridge Ian, Reid Simon, Ng Josephine, Armson Anthony, Ryan Una
Abstract excerpt
A total of 421 fecal samples from a variety of captive and wild marsupial hosts in Western Australia, Victoria and South Australia were screened for the presence of Giardia species/genotypes using PCR and sequence analysis of a fragment of the 18S rRNA gene. Giardia spp. were identified in 13.4% (28/209) of samples from captive marsupials and 13.7% (29/212) of samples from wild marsupials. Sequence analysis at...
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