Comparative Evaluation of Real-Time Screening PCR Assays for Giardia duodenalis and of Assays Discriminating the Assemblages A and B

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Due to superior sensitivity compared to traditional microscopy, real-time PCR has been well established for the diagnosis of Giardia duodenalis in human stool samples. In this study, screening real-time PCRs for different target genes of G. duodenalis, i.e., the 18S rRNA gene, the gdh (glutamate dehydrogenase) gene and the bg (beta-giardin) gene, were comparatively assessed next to various real-time PCR assays...

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