2021-03-25Zeitschriftenartikel
Suitability of current typing procedures to identify epidemiologically linked human Giardia duodenalis isolates
Woschke, Andreas; Faber, Mirko; Stark, Klaus; Holtfreter, Martha; Mockenhaupt, Frank; Richter, Joachim; Regnath, Thomas; Sobottka, Ingo; Reiter-Owona, Ingrid; Diefenbach, Andreas; Gosten-Heinrich, Petra; Friesen, Johannes; Ignatius, Ralf; Aebischer, Toni; Klotz, Christian
Background
Giardia duodenalis is a leading cause of gastroenteritis worldwide. Humans are mainly infected by two different subtypes, i.e., assemblage A and B. Genotyping is hampered by allelic sequence heterozygosity (ASH) ...