Frequency of Giardia duodenalis infection and its genetic variability in dogs in Cuiab á, Midwest Brazil

Conclusions: The risk factors age, gender, breed, diet and the presence of other dogs in the same house were not correlationated with giardiasis. The host-specific and zoonotic genotype warns of the risk of inter and intraspecies transmission and it provides, for the first time, information about genetic characterization ofG. duodenalis isolates in dogs in Cuiab á, Midwest region of Brazil.
Source: The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: research