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Giardia infections in Cuban children: the genotypes circulating in a rural population.
Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology - 1 Oct 2008
Pelayo L, Nuñez F A, Rojas L, Furuseth Hansen E, Gjerde B, Wilke H, Mulder B, Robertson L
Abstract excerpt
Stool samples containing Giardia duodenalis cysts were collected from 95 primary-school children in central Cuba, and preserved by storing at -20 degrees C in 70% ethanol. Clinical data were collected for each child. Although 57% of the children were asymptomatic, the remaining 43% each reported between one and three symptoms. Following cyst quantification and isolation, molecular analyses were attempted on all...
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