Parasitic infestation remains a public health problem in Côte d’Ivoire. The general objective of this study is the parasitological characterization pigs breeding Vavoua. allowed us to identify seven (7) species parasites with zoonotic effect: Ascaris lumbricoides, Taenia soluim, Cryptosporidium parvum, and Giardia intestinalis, specific are Fasciola hepatica Toxocara canis Echinicocus granulosu...

Acquisition of the mitochondrion is a key event in the evolution of the eukaryotic cell, but diversification of the organelle has occurred during eukaryotic evolution. One example of such mitochondria-related organelles (MROs) are hydrogenosomes, which produce ATP by substrate-level phosphorylation with hydrogen as a byproduct. The diplomonad parasite Giardia intestinalis harbours mitosomes, an...

Giardia lamblia (syn G. intestinalis, G. duodenalis) is the intestinal protozoan producing non-bacterial diarrhea most prevalent in the world. PCR genotype classification of Giardia in feces depends on the quality and quantity of purified DNA and the removal of a great number of inhibitors. The aim of this study was to adapt a PCR protocol to the amplification of the triosephosphate isomerase (...

The reproductive mechanism of Giardia intestinalis, considered one of the earliest divergent eukaryotes, has not been fully defined yet. Some evidence supports the hypothesis that Giardia is an exclusively asexual organism with a clonal population structure. However, the high genetic variability, the variation in ploidy during its life cycle, the low heterozygosity and the existence of genes in...

Giardiasis is a common diarrheal disease worldwide caused by the protozoan parasite Giardia intestinalis. It is urgent to develop novel drugs to treat giardiasis, due to increasing clinical resistance to the gold standard drug metronidazole (MTZ). New potential antiparasitic compounds are usually tested for their killing efficacy against G. intestinalis under anaerobic conditions, in which MTZ ...

introduction: different isolates of human specifies, giardia intestinalis, also known as giardia lambia, have been shown to vary in sensitivity to drug, isoenzyme pattern, virulence and infectivity, antigens and restriction enzyme pattern. material and methods: using system that distinguishes sequence differences in the metabolic enzyme tpi, dna extracted from trophozoite that culture in modifi...