ArticleEuropean journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology2015
Giardia duodenalis assemblages in Egyptian children with diarrhea.
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- Molecular Epidemiology of Giardia Species in Different Hosts in Africa: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Acta parasitologica · 2026Pooled it
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- Microscopy detection and molecular characterisation ofFrontiers in public health · 2024Article
- A shotgun metagenomic analysis of the fecal microbiome in humans infected with Giardia duodenalis.Parasites & vectors · 2023Article
- Giardia lamblia-infected preschoolers present growth delays independent of the assemblage A, B or E.Memorias do Instituto Oswaldo Cruz · 2023Article
- Multilocus sequence typing ofFrontiers in medicine · 2022Article
- The Predominance of Giardia duodenalis AII sub-assemblage in young children from Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.Biomedica : revista del Instituto Nacional de Salud · 2020Article
- First report ofInternational journal for parasitology. Parasites and wildlife · 2020Article
- First report of Giardia duodenalis infection in bamboo rats.Parasites & vectors · 2018Article
- A Comprehensive Review of Common Bacterial, Parasitic and Viral Zoonoses at the Human-Animal Interface in Egypt.Pathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2017Review
- Nested PCR targeting intergenic spacer (IGS) in genotyping of Giardia duodenalis isolated from symptomatic and asymptomatic infected Egyptian school children.Parasitology research · 2017Article
- First genetic characterisation of Giardia in human isolates from Jordan.Parasitology research · 2016Article
- The zoonotic potential of Giardia intestinalis assemblage E in rural settings.Parasitology research · 2016Article
- High occurrence of Blastocystis sp. subtypes 1-3 and Giardia intestinalis assemblage B among patients in Zanzibar, Tanzania.Parasites & vectors · 2016Article
- Giardiasis Pattern among Different Age Categories: Childhood Assemblage B Proclaim Endemicity.Iranian journal of parasitologyArticle
- Molecular epidemiologic tools for waterborne pathogensFood and waterborne parasitologyReview
- Molecular detection and genotyping ofTropical parasitologyArticle
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Abstract
Giardia duodenalis is considered the most common cause of parasitic diarrhea worldwide. Genetic studies revealed that at least eight assemblages (A-H) exist. Of these assemblages, A and B are found primarily in human beings and occasionally in animals. The association between clinical symptoms and G. duodenalis assemblages is controversial. The aim of the present study was to determine the assemblages of G. duodenalis prevalent among Egyptian children with diarrhea. Therefore, 96 positive stool samples for Giardia by light microscopy were subjected to multilocus genotyping targeting the triose phosphate isomerase (tpi), β-giardin (bg), and glutamate dehydrogenase (gdh) genes. Amplified polymerase chain reaction (PCR) products were then purified, sequenced, and aligned with reference strains to determine the assemblages of the Giardia isolates. Out of the 96 microscopically positive stool samples for Giardia, 77 (80 %) were successfully amplified and sequenced at least at one locus. Of these, 21 (27.3 %) were shown to be assemblage A, 54 (70.1 %) assemblage B, while discordant sequence typing results were observed in 2 (2.6 %) samples. AII was the predominant subassemblage of assemblage A, while it was generally difficult to further classify assemblage B. It was concluded that infection with assemblage B was more common than that with assemblage A. No associations between epidemiological information and assemblage were detected, except with age. Although infections with assemblage B were more frequently associated with abdominal pain and acute diarrhea than with assemblage A, the difference was not statistically significant.
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