Frequency of Giardia intestinalis assemblages isolated from dogs and humans in a community from Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico using β-giardin restriction gene
| Autor: | Soyla Gaxiola, Silvia Cota-Guajardo, Leticia Eligio-García, Adrián Cortés-Campos, Enedina Jiménez-Cardoso |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Giardiasis
Male Protozoan Proteins Microbiology Feces Dogs Puppy biology.animal Genotype medicine Animals Humans Dog Diseases Deoxyribonucleases Type II Site-Specific Axenic Mexico Human feces General Veterinary biology Zoonosis Infant Giardia General Medicine biology.organism_classification medicine.disease Cytoskeletal Proteins Restriction enzyme Child Preschool Female Parasitology Giardia lamblia |
| Zdroj: | Veterinary Parasitology. 156:205-209 |
| ISSN: | 0304-4017 |
| Popis: | The assemblage of 37 Giardia intestinalis samples was determined, 19 obtained from puppy feces, 12 from stools of different human subjects under 3 years of age and 6 from axenic culture. The assemblages were classified according to the restriction pattern of beta-giardin gene with Hae III enzyme. Results showed that dog assemblages were grouped AI (52.6%) and AII (47.4%), while 41.7% human samples belonged to genotype AI and 58.3% to genotype AII. All axenic cultures belonged to assemblage AI; types AI and AII were both found in dog and human feces by Hae III restriction enzyme assay, suggesting a similarity between human and dog parasites. These results suggest that domestic animals infected with Giardia could produce cysts potentially infective for humans. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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