| morphological and molecular characterization of giardia isolated from the straw-necked ibis (threskiornis spinicollis) in western australia. | following the first report of avian giardia infection in australia, isolates of the parasite recovered from naturally infected straw-necked ibis (theskiornis spinicollis) were characterized using median body morphology, scanning electron microscopy, multilocus enzyme electrophoresis, random amplified polymorphic dna (rapd), and small subunit ribosomal rna (ssu-rrna) analyses. results were compared with giardia from other birds and mammals, and the extent of genetic diversity between a range of i ... | 1996 | 8885877 |