Identification of zoonotic Giardia genotypes in marsupials in Australia

Experimental Parasitology

Volumn 120, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 88-93

  Thompson, Jacqui ^a   Yang, Rongchang ^a   Power, Michelle ^b   Hufschmid, Jasmin ^c   Beveridge, Ian ^c   Reid, Simon ^a   Ng, Josephine ^a   Armson, Anthony ^a   Ryan, Una ^a  

^a MURDOCH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

18S rRNA; Assemblage A; Assemblage B; Captive; gdh; Genotype A; Genotype B; Giardia; Marsupials; Wild

Indexed keywords

RNA 18S;

ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCUS; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA MURIS; HEALTH HAZARD; MARSUPIAL; NONHUMAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANIMALS, ZOO; AUSTRALIA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FECES; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; MARSUPIALIA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; ZOONOSES;

GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; METATHERIA;

EID: 48649109142     PISSN: 00144894     EISSN: 10902449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2008.05.002     Document Type: Article

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