Genetic Characterizations of Giardia duodenalis in Sheep and Goats in Heilongjiang Province, China and Possibility of Zoonotic Transmission

W Zhang, X Zhang, R Wang, A Liu, Y Shen, H Ling… - 2012 - journals.plos.org
Background Giardia duodenalis is a widespread intestinal protozoan of both humans and
mammals. To date, few epidemiological studies have assessed the potential and importance …

Detection of Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia duodenalis in surface water: a health risk for humans and animals

JA Castro-Hermida, I García-Presedo, A Almeida… - Water Research, 2009 - Elsevier
The objective of the present study was to determine the degree of contamination by
Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia duodenalis in a river basin in a livestock farming area in …

Contribution of treated wastewater to the contamination of recreational river areas with Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia duodenalis

JA Castro-Hermida, I García-Presedo, A Almeida… - Water Research, 2008 - Elsevier
Samples of the influent and final effluent from 12 wastewater treatment plants from Galicia
(NW, Spain) were analyzed for the presence of Cryptosporidium spp. oocysts and Giardia …

Cryptosporidium and Giardia detection in water bodies of Galicia, Spain

JA Castro-Hermida, I García-Presedo… - Water research, 2010 - Elsevier
The objective of this study was to determine the mean concentration (per litre) of
Cryptosporidium oocysts and Giardia cysts in recreational river areas (n= 28), drinking water …

The significant but understudied impact of pathogen transmission from humans to animals

JH Epstein, JT Price - Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine: A …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Zooanthroponotic pathogens, which are transmitted from humans to nonhuman animals, are
an understudied aspect of global health, despite their potential to cause significant disease …

Prevalence and molecular characterization of Giardia duodenalis in small ruminants of Shiraz, southwestern Iran: A zoonotic concern

A Asghari, F Mahdavi, L Shamsi… - … and Infectious Diseases, 2022 - Elsevier
Livestock are commonly affected by gastrointestinal protozoan parasites, including Giardia
duodenalis. In small ruminants, G. duodenalis infection may decrease carcass weight and …

High genetic diversity of Giardia duodenalis assemblage E in pre-weaned dairy calves in Shanghai, China, revealed by multilocus genoty**

X Wang, M Cai, W Jiang, Y Wang, Y **, N Li… - Parasitology …, 2017 - Springer
Giardia duodenalis is a common parasitic protozoan in human and animals.
Epidemiological and molecular data are available from dairy cattle in many industrialized …