Table 1.
The sequence of the primers used in the present study.
Table 2.
The sociodemographic data of patients participating in the present study.
Fig 1.
Agarose gel 1.5% stained with ethidium bromide showing PCR products of tpi gene amplification of Giardia duodenalis.
Lane M: Molecular weight marker (100 bp), lane NC: negative control. Lanes (1 to 10): patient samples. The lanes with positive PCR products at 605 bp. Lanes (1, 4 & 7): negative samples.
Table 3.
The prevalence of Giardia infection among patients with different symptoms.
Table 4.
The prevalence of Giardia infection among symptomatic and asymptomatic cases in relation to gender.
Fig 2.
Nested PCR amplification of Giardia species-specific primers in 1.5% agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide: Showing nested PCR products of Giardia genotype A with positive bands at 332 bp.
Lanes (1–10): positive specimens.
Fig 3.
1.5% agarose gel stained with ethidium bromide showing nested PCR amplification of Giardia genotype B with positive bands at 400 bp.
Lanes (4, 7, 9 & 11): negative genotype B specimens. Lane (M): 100 bp molecular weight ladder.
Table 5.
The correlation between different Giardia assemblages and patients’ demographic data.
Fig 4.
Association between different Giardia assemblages with patient symptoms.
Table 6.
The association between different Giardia assemblages and patients’ symptoms.