Multilocus Genotyping of Human Giardia Isolates Suggests Limited Zoonotic Transmission and Association between Assemblage B and Flatulence in Children

• Marianne Lebbad,

  Affiliations Department of Diagnostics and Vaccinology, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Solna, Sweden, Microbiology and Tumor Biology Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Ingvor Petersson,

  Affiliation Department of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Lillemor Karlsson,

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Microbiology, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Silvia Botero-Kleiven,

  Affiliation Department of Diagnostics and Vaccinology, Swedish Institute for Communicable Disease Control, Solna, Sweden

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• Jan O. Andersson,

  Affiliation Department of Molecular Evolution, Evolutionary Biology Centre, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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• Bo Svenungsson,

  Affiliation Department of Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Stockholm County Council, Stockholm, Sweden

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• Staffan G. Svärd

  * E-mail: Staffan.svard@icm.uu.se

  Affiliations Microbiology and Tumor Biology Centre, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden

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