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Prevalence and genotyping of Giardia duodenalis isolated from sheep in Henan Province, central China.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Apr 2016
Wang Haiyan, Qi Meng, Zhang Kaifang, Li Junqiang, Huang Jianying, Ning Changshen, Zhang Longxian
Abstract excerpt
Giardia duodenalis is a gastrointestinal protozoan that infects sheep. It is a well-known zoonotic pathogen and sheep have been implicated as a source of human infection. However, there have been few studies of its potential threat to public health in China. We used a multilocus analysis of the beta-giardin (bg), glutamate dehydrogenase (gdh), and triose phosphate isomerase (tpi) genes to examine the occurrence...
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