Giardiasis in urban and rural Amazonas, Brazil is driven by zoonotic and cosmopolitan A and B assemblages

BACKGROUND Giardia duodenalis is a protozoan parasite that infects humans and other mammals and causes giardiasis worldwide. Giardia is genotyped into eight assemblages (A-H), with assemblages A and B considered zoonotic. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the assemblages of G. duo...

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Main Authors: Lisiane Lappe dos Reis, Túllio Romão Ribeiro da Silva, Francisco Carlos de Oliveira Braga, Naara Macedo do Nascimento, Katia Maria Lima de Menezes, Alessandra Ferreira Dales Nava, Natália Aparecida de Souza Lima, Ana Carolina Paulo Vicente
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (FIOCRUZ) 2022-02-01
Series:Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0074-02762021000101112&tlng=en