Giardia infections in Cuban children: The genotypes circulating in a rural population

Annals of Tropical Medicine and Parasitology

Volumn 102, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 585-595

  Pelayo, L ^a   Nunez F A ^a   Rojas, L ^a   Furuseth Hansen, E ^b   Gjerde, B ^b   Wilke, H ^c   Mulder, B ^c   Robertson, L ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE MEDICINA TROPICAL PEDRO KOURÍ   (Cuba)

^b NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^c Laboratory of Medical Microbiology Twente Achterhoek   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DEHYDROGENASE;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; CUBA; FEMALE; GENE ISOLATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTOZOAL GENETICS; RURAL AREA; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANIMALS; CHILD; CUBA; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; MALE; RURAL HEALTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 55049112694     PISSN: 00034983     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/136485908X355247     Document Type: Article

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