An investigation of the prevalence of Giardia agilis in anuran amphibians from fourteen areas in China.

ABSTRACT: Giardia agilis is a Giardia species which is morphological distinguishable for its very narrow and elongated trophozoite. Although there were a few studies about its morphology since its first report in 1882, none investigations about its prevalence have ever been reported to date. We investigated the prevalence of G. agilis in 25 anuran amphibian species from five provinces of China using both morphological and molecular methods. Of the 463 tested samples, 195 (42.1%) were positive. The 195 positive samples were from nine species, which are scatteredly distributed in four anuran amphibian families. The statistical prevalence among adults of different frog species showed no significant difference, and so did among tadpoles. Thus, G. agilis is probably able to in

SUBMITTER: Lyu Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7217803 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature