Identificación de genotipos de Giardia duodenalis en niños del área urbana de Guatemala

• Autores: E. Aldana, María Pilar Goñi Cepero, Antonio Clavel Parrilla, B. Cancinos de Orantes, L. Buera
• Localización: Revista Ibero-latinoamericana de parasitología, ISSN 0718-8730, Vol. 70, Nº. 1, 2011, págs. 25-28
• Idioma: español
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• Resumen

  • Forty-four stool samples from children aged 0 to 5 years with giardiosis, from Guatemala City (Guatemala), were studied to determine Giardia duodenalis genotypes circulating in the urban area. A fragment of the tpi gene was amplifi ed, with subsequent RFLP of the product with RsaI to differentiate AI and AII subgenotypes. Assemblage B (63.6%) was the most prevalent, followed by assemblage AII (20.5%) and the mix of assemblages AII+B (15.9%). To our knowledge, this is the fi rst work on G. duodenalis genotyping in Guatemala, so it provides new data for giardiosis epidemiology.