Detection of Giardia intestinalis assemblages A, B and D in domestic cats from Warsaw, Poland

Polish Journal of Microbiology

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 259-263

  Jaros, Dorota ^a,b   Zygner, Wojciech ^b   Jaros, Sławomir ^c,d   Wȩdrychowicz, Halina ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Poland)

^c W STEFA SKI INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Poland)

^d Laboratory of Molecular Biology   (Poland)

Author keywords

Assemblage in cats; Genotype; Giardia intestinalis; PCR RFLP; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

PRIMER DNA;

AMPLICON; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA SEQUENCE; DOG; FECES ANALYSIS; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; POLAND; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; FELIS CATUS; GIARDIA; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS;

EID: 80054954910     PISSN: 17331331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.33073/pjm-2011-036     Document Type: Article

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