Table 4.

Global distribution of assemblages of Giardia duodenalis in pigs.

Location	Host	No. specimens genotyped	Genes	No. of specimens with assemblage						References
				A	B	C	D	E	F
Denmark	Domestic pig	82	SSU rRNA and gdh	10			1	71		[10]
Denmark	Domestic pig	13	SSU rRNA and gdh	2				11		[14]
Italy	Domestic pig	1	bg, tpi and gdh	1						[5]
Australia	Domestic pig	55a	SSU rRNA	19				37	1	[3]
Canada	Domestic pig	81	SSU rRNA and bg		75			6		[6]
UK	Domestic pig	3	SSU rRNA			1		2		[13]
Poland	Domestic pig	5	bg		1			4		[18]
USA	Domestic pig	3	bg, gdh and tpi	2				1		[15]
China	Domestic pig	45	bg, gdh and tpi	9				36		[20]
China	Domestic pig	15	tpi	3		3		9		[21]
Nigeria	Domestic pig	53b	SSU rRNA and gdh		16			39		[1]
China	Domestic pig	21	SSU rRNA, bg, gdh and tpi	2	16			3		This study
Croatia	Wild boar	1	SSU rRNA, ITS and tpi	1						[4]
China	Wild boar	11	bg	2				9		[12]
Total		389	SSU rRNA, bg, gdh, ITS and tpi	51	108	4	1	228	1

^aMixed infection with both assemblages A and E in two isolates.

^bMixed infection with both assemblages B and E in two isolates.