Treatment-refractory giardiasis is predominantly an imported infection from South Asia associated with Giardia sub-assemblage BIII: a five-year study from the Czech Republic.

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Giardiasis is a cosmopolitan parasitic infection caused by a protozoan pathogen Giardia intestinalis. A high number of failures complicates the metronidazole (MTZ) treatment. However, long-term studies characterising the parasites associated with MTZ treatment failures are lacking. This study was designed to map Giardia genotypes, clinical manifestations and geographical origin of giardiasis in a patient cohort...

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