Evidence of heterozygosity and recombinant alleles in single cysts of Giardia duodenalis

Abstract Giardia duodenalis is divided into eight assemblages (named A to H). Isolates of assemblage A are divided into four sub-assemblages (AI, AII, AIII and AIV). While isolates of sub-assemblage AII are almost exclusively detected in human hosts, isolates of assemblage B are encountered in a multitude of animal hosts and humans. Here, we isolated single cysts of G. duodenalis from a human stool sample and found that one of them had overlaps of assemblage AII and B alleles and an unexpectedly high number of variants of the beta-giardin (Bg) and GLORF-C4 (OrfC4) alleles. In addition, one of the Bg alleles of that cyst had a fragment of sub-assemblage AII interspersed with fragments of assemblage B, thus indicating that this allele may be a recombinant between sequences A and B. Our results are unprecedented and put a check on the statement that different assemblages of G. duodenalis represent species with different host specificities.

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Aguiar,Juliana Martins, Silva,Sheila Oliveira, Santos,Valdir Azevedo dos, Taniwaki,Sueli Akemi, Oliveira,Tricia Maria Ferreira de Sousa, Ferreira,Helena Lage, Keid,Lara Borges, Gregori,Fábio, Soares,Rodrigo Martins
Format:	Digital revista
Language:	English
Published:	Colégio Brasileiro de Parasitologia Veterinária 2016
Online Access:	http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1984-29612016000200187
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