Prevalence and Multilocus Genotyping of Giardia duodenalis in Donkeys in Shanxi Province, North China.

ABSTRACT: Giardia duodenalis is a ubiquitous flagellated protozoan, causing significant economic losses to animal husbandry and posing threats to public health. China ranks the world's sixth largest major producer of donkeys, rearing approximately 2.6 million donkeys in 2019, but limited investigation of G. duodenalis prevalence has been conducted in the past, and it is yet to be known whether donkeys in Shanxi Province are infected with G. duodenalis. In the present study, a total of 815 fecal samples collected from donkeys in representative regions of Shanxi Province, North China, were examined for G. duodenalis using nested PCR. Then, the assemblages and multilocus genotypes (MLGs) were examined based on three established loci: namely, β-giardin (bg), triosephos

SUBMITTER: Gao WW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10740759 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature