Short report: Giardia duodenalis assemblages associated with diarrhea in children in South India identified by PCR-RFLP

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 80, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 16-19

  Ajjampur, Sitara S R ^a   Sankaran, Premi ^a   Kannan, Arun ^a   Sathyakumar, Kirthi ^a   Sarkar, Rajiv ^a   Gladstone, Beryl P ^a   Kang, Gagandeep ^a  

^a CHRISTIAN MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE;

ACUTE DIARRHEA; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; GIARDIASIS; HUMAN; INDIA; INFECTION RISK; INFECTIOUS DIARRHEA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIXED INFECTION; MOTHER; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POVERTY; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SOCIAL STATUS; WASTING SYNDROME; AEROMONAS; ANIMAL; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; GENETICS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RECURRENT DISEASE; ROTAVIRUS; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE; VIROLOGY;

GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

AEROMONAS; ANIMALS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CRYPTOSPORIDIUM; DIARRHEA; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; POVERTY; RECURRENCE; ROTAVIRUS; SALMONELLA; SHIGELLA; VIBRIO CHOLERAE;

EID: 58149463434     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2009.80.16     Document Type: Article

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