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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-6-13
pubmed:abstractText
Giardia duodenalis infection in humans can cause a variety of clinical symptoms. The relation between clinical symptomatology and the Giardia isolate genotype was studied in 18 Dutch patients infected with G. duodenalis who visited their general practitioner. Contrary to earlier studies, a 100% correlation between severity of diarrhoeal complaints and genotype was found: assemblage A isolates were solely detected in patients with intermittent diarrhoeal complaints, while assemblage B isolates were present in patients with persistent diarrhoeal complaints. These results are significant because they show for the first time that genetically linked features of G. duodenalis are major determinants in the severity of infection in human giardiasis.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0020-7519
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
31
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
822-6
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Human giardiasis: genotype linked differences in clinical symptomatology.
pubmed:affiliation
Microbiological Laboratory for Health Protection, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, P.O. Box 1, 3720 BA Bilthoven, The Netherlands. wieger.holman@rivm.nl
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article