Genetic Characterizations of Giardia duodenalis in Sheep and Goats in Heilongjiang Province, China and Possibility of Zoonotic Transmission

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 6, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Zhang, Weizhe ^a   Zhang, Xiaoli ^a   Wang, Rongjun ^b   Liu, Aiqin ^a   Shen, Yujuan ^c   Ling, Hong ^a   Cao, Jianping ^c   Yang, Fengkun ^a   Zhang, Xiaoyun ^a   Zhang, Longxian ^b  

^a HARBIN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b HENAN AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c BEIJING HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHINA; FECES ANALYSIS; GENE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; GOAT; MICROBIAL DIVERSITY; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE EXAMINATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SHEEP; TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE GENE; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CHINA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, HELMINTH; FECES; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; GIARDIASIS; GOAT DISEASES; GOATS; HELMINTH PROTEINS; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; TRIOSE-PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 84866927241     PISSN: 19352727     EISSN: 19352735     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001826     Document Type: Article

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