Volume 18, Number 5—May 2012

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Pigs as Natural Hosts of Dientamoeba fragilis Genotypes Found in Humans

Simone M. Cacciò , Anna Rosa Sannella, Elisabetta Manuali, Fabio Tosini, Marco Sensi, Daniele Crotti, and Edoardo Pozio

Author affiliations: Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy (S.M. Cacciò, A.R. Sannella, F. Tosini, E. Pozio); Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale dell’Umbria e delle Marche, Perugia, Italy (E. Manuali, M. Sensi, D. Crotti)

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Figure 1. . . . Dientamoeba fragilis trophozoites in a smear of pig feces after Giemsa staining, Italy, 2010–2011. Scale bar = 10 μm.

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