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Variation in Giardia: towards a taxonomic revision of the genus.
Trends in parasitology - 1 Feb 2009
Monis Paul T, Caccio Simone M, Thompson R C Andrew
Abstract excerpt
Taxonomic uncertainty has had a negative impact on our understanding of the epidemiology of Giardia infections, particularly the role of wild and domestic animals as sources of human infection. The lack of morphological criteria for species identification and the failure of cross-infection experiments to unequivocally determine host specificity have largely contributed to this uncertainty. However, over the past...
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