Fish as a possible reservoir for zoonotic Giardia duodenalis assemblages

Parasitology Research

Volumn 110, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2193-2196

  Ghoneim, Nahed H ^a   Abdel Moein, Khaled A ^a   Saeed, Hossam ^b  

^a Cairo University   (Egypt)

^b Benha University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE;

AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EGYPT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FISH; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GIARDIA DUODENALIS; GIARDIASIS; MUGIL CEPHALUS; NONHUMAN; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PISCICULTURE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE GENE; WATER CONTAMINATION; WILD SPECIES; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CICHLIDS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA, PROTOZOAN; EGYPT; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; FISH DISEASES; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; HUMANS; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SMEGMAMORPHA; ZOONOSES;

GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; MUGIL CEPHALUS; OREOCHROMIS NILOTICUS;

EID: 84863484074     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-011-2748-y     Document Type: Article

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