| prevalence and genotyping of human isolates of giardia duodenalis from albania. | microscopical and pcr-based techniques were performed in order to investigate the prevalence of infection and the genotypes of giardia duodenalis from 125 stool samples collected from children living in the urban and the rural areas of tirana (albania) and hospitalized with acute gastroenteritis. 7 out of 125 samples resulted positive for giardia at the microscopic examination (5.6%). in 50 selected samples including the 7 samples positive for giardia by microscopy, 3 and 15 additional positive ... | 2006 | 16875862 |