Zoonotic potential and molecular epidemiology of Giardia species and giardiasis

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 110-140

  Yaoyu, Feng ^a   Xiao, Lihua ^b  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; EPIDEMIC; FARM ANIMAL; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GIARDIA; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; GROWTH; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUTRITION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; PHYLOGENY; POPULATION GENETICS; PUBLIC HEALTH; TAXONOMY; VETERINARY MEDICINE; WILD ANIMAL; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; PARASITOLOGY; ZOONOSES;

GIARDIA;

EID: 78751544529     PISSN: 08938512     EISSN: 10986618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/CMR.00033-10     Document Type: Article

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