A novel family of cyst proteins with epidermal growth factor repeats in Giardia lamblia.

• Main Authors: Pei-Wei Chiu (Author), Yu-Chang Huang (Author), Yu-Jiao Pan (Author), Chih-Hung Wang (Author), Chin-Hung Sun (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND: Giardia lamblia parasitizes the human small intestine to cause diarrhea and malabsorption. It undergoes differentiation from a pathogenic trophozoite form into a resistant walled cyst form. Few cyst proteins have been identified to date, including three cyst wall proteins (CWPs) and one...