Zoonotic assemblages A and B of in Chiroptera from Brazilian Amazon biome.

Bats are important reservoirs and spreaders of pathogens. is a globally important protozoan that infects humans and other mammals with considerable public health burden, particularly on the child development. Based on genetic variation and host specificity, is categorized into eight genotypes/assemblages A-H.

Zoonotic Giardia duodenalis assemblage A in northern sloth from Brazilian Amazon.

Background: The parasite Giardia duodenalis infects a wide range of vertebrate hosts, including domestic and wild animals as well as humans. Giardia is genotyped into eight assemblages (A-H). Zoonotic assemblages A and B have already been identified in humans and wild and domestic animals (non-human primates and cats) from Brazilian Amazon and in the world.