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Identification of Giardia lamblia Assemblage E in Humans Points to a New Anthropozoonotic Cycle.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 15 Oct 2016
Fantinatti Maria, Bello Alexandre R, Fernandes Octavio, Da-Cruz Alda M
Abstract excerpt
Giardia lamblia is a pathogen transmitted by water and food that causes infection worldwide. Giardia genotypes are classified into 8 assemblages (A-H). Assemblages A and B are detected in humans, but they are potentially zoonotic because they infect other mammalian hosts. Giardia in samples from 44 children was genotyped. Conserved fragments of the genes encoding β-giardin and glutamate dehydrogenase were...
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