Molecular evidence for zoonotic transmission of Giardia duodenalis among dairy farm workers in West Bengal, India

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 178, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 342-345

  Khan, Shahbaz Manzoor ^a,b   Debnath, Chanchal ^b   Pramanik, Amiya Kumar ^b   Xiao, Lihua ^c   Nozaki, Tomoyoshi ^d   Ganguly, Sandipan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHOLERA AND ENTERIC DISEASES   (India)

^b WEST BENGAL UNIVERSITY OF ANIMAL AND FISHERY SCIENCES   (India)

^c CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cattle; Dairy farm workers; Genotyping; Giardia duodenalis; India; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGRICULTURAL WORKER; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BETA GIARDIN GENE; CALF (BOVINE); CONTROLLED STUDY; DAIRY CATTLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DNA SEQUENCE; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; GIARDIASIS; HEIFER; HUMAN; INDIA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DNA, PROTOZOAN; FECES; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GIARDIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; INDIA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; BOS; BOVINAE; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 79956262683     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.01.029     Document Type: Article

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