Abstract:BackgroundGiardia is one of the most common causes of diarrhoea in the world and is a notifiable disease in New Zealand. Recent advances in molecular techniques, such as PCR and Sanger sequencing, have greatly improved our understanding of the taxonomic classification and epidemiology of this parasite. However, there has been an inability to identify shared subtypes between samples from the same epidemiologically linked cases, due to samples showing multiple dominant subtypes within the same outbreak when char… Show more
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