Detection and molecular characterisation of Giardia lamblia genotypes in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 108, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 466-473

  Elbakri, Ali ^a   Samie, Amidou ^b   Bessong, Pascal ^b   Potgieter, Natasha ^b   Abu Odeh, Ra'ed ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHARJAH   (United Arab Emirates)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VENDA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Giardia lamblia; Small subunit ribosomal RNA gene; Triosephosphate isomerase gene; United Arab Emirates

Indexed keywords

PROTOZOAL DNA; TRIOSEPHOSPHATE ISOMERASE;

FECES; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA INTESTINALIS; HUMAN; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; PARASITOLOGY; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

DNA, PROTOZOAN; FECES; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; HUMANS; MALE; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TRIOSE-PHOSPHATE ISOMERASE; UNITED ARAB EMIRATES;

EID: 84904389991     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: 18783503     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/trstmh/tru083     Document Type: Article

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