Table 3.
Sample |
Giardia duodenalis |
Troglodytella sp. | Balantioides sp. | Entamoeba sp. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
RAT | real-time PCR | ||||
C1 | + | + | + | + | |
C2 | + | + | |||
C3 | + | + | + | ||
C4 | + | + | |||
C5 | |||||
C6 | + | + | |||
C7* | + | + | |||
C8 | + | + | |||
C9 | + | + | |||
C10 | + | ||||
C11 | + | + | |||
C12 | + | + | + | ||
C13 | + | + | + | ||
C14 | |||||
C15 | + | + | + | + | |
C16 | + | + | |||
C17 | + | + | + | ||
C18 | + | + | |||
C19 | + | ||||
C20 | + | + | |||
C21 | + | + | |||
C22 | + | + | |||
C23 | |||||
C24 | + | + | + | ||
C25 | + | ||||
C26 | + | + |
Note: * - additional pseudoparasite eggs (tapeworms) detected; RAT - Anigen Rapid Giardia AG Test Kit (BioNote, Seoul, South Korea); real-time PCR - TaqMan real-time PCR assay targets a 62-bp fragment of 18S rDNA of G. duodenalis (M54878) (Verweij et al., 2003).