title: Genotypic characterisation of Giardia from domestic dogs in the USA.
abstract: The first large-scale urban survey of Giardia infections in dogs was undertaken in the USA. It involved several locations in the Western United States with Giardia isolates from microscopy-positive samples characterised by multi-locus PCR and sequencing. A high prevalence of Giardia was confirmed in asymptomatic domestic dogs, and for the first time, provides evidence that zoonotic assemblages/subgroups of Giardia occur frequently in domestic dogs living in urban environments, and more frequently than the dog specific assemblages.
authors.affiliation: WHO Collaborating Centre for Molecular Epidemiology of Parasitic Infections and State Agricultural Biotechnology Centre, School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Murdoch University, South Street, Western Australia 6150, Australia.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Covacin
authors.forename: D P
authors.initials: DP
authors.lastname: Aucoin
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Elliot
authors.forename: R C A
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Thompson
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology*; D004285:Dogs; D014644:Genetic Variation; D005872:Giardia / Q000235:genetics*; D005873:Giardiasis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000662:veterinary*; D006801:Humans; D012337:RNA, Ribosomal, 18S / Q000235:genetics; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D015047:Zoonoses / Q000469:parasitology
chemical_list: D012337:RNA, Ribosomal, 18S