background: giardia has the ability to infect many mammals including dogs, cats, deer, mice, ground squirrels, chinchillas, swine, rabbits, pocket mice, oxen, guinea pigs, and humans. giardia lamblia (also giardia duodenalis, g.intestinalis) isolates have been variably divided into two or three genotypes by different investigators, and each group can be divided into subgroups. objectives: we ha...