Identification of Giardia species and Giardia duodenalis assemblages by sequence analysis of the 5.8S rDNA gene and internal transcribed spacers

Parasitology

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 919-925

  Cacciò, Simone M ^a   Beck, Relja ^a,b   Almeida, Andre ^a,c   Bajer, Anna ^d   Pozio, Edoardo ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b CROATIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Croatia)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF HEALTH   (Portugal)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

5.8S rDNA; Genotyping; Giardia duodenalis; Giardia microti; Giardia muris; Internal transcribed spacers; Sequence analysis

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER; RIBOSOME DNA;

ARTICLE; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; GIARDIA MICROTI; GIARDIA MURIS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; GIARDIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

ANIMALIA; GIARDIA; GIARDIA ARDEAE; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; GIARDIA MICROTI; GIARDIA MURIS;

EID: 77953617431     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: 14698161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S003118200999179X     Document Type: Article

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