Determination of Giardia duodenalis assemblages and multi-locus genotypes in patients with sporadic giardiasis from England

Table 2 Giardia multi-locus genotypes of 76 isolates unambiguously genotyped at the bg, gdh and tpi loci

Assemblage	No. isolates (ID)	Bg	Gdh	Tpi	MLG
A	9	A2	AII	AII	AII-1^a
	4	A3	AII	AII	AII-2^a
	9 (9/10, 11/29, 11/67, 12/C65, 12/C70, 12/C74, 13/C117, 13/C122, 13/C162)	A3	ECUST2196	AII	AII new (a)
	5 (8/H3, 11/27, 12/C16, 12/G, 13/C123)	A2	ECUST2196	AII	AII new (b)
	2 (12/C31, 13/C164)	A3	ISSGd198	AII	AII new (c)
	12/C41	A2	12/C41~	AII	AII new (d)
B	21	B1–3	BIV	BIV	1^b
	1	B1–1	BIV	BIV	7^b
	3 (12/C7, 13/C147, 13/CF)	B1–2	BIV	BIV	B new (a)
	3 (12/C87, 12/C92, 12/C96)	B1–5	BIV	VB906855	B new (b)
	3 (13/C152, 13/C165, 13/CE)	B1–5	ISSGd167	VB906855	B new (c)
	2 (12/C9, 12/C84)	B1–2	BIV	VB906855	B new (d)
	2 (12/C80, 12/C160)	B1–2	ISSGd167	BIV	B new (e)
	12/C95	B1–1	ISSGd167	BIV	B new (f)
	13/CO	13/CO~	BIV	BIV	B new (g)
	13/C149	B1–2	Ad-158	Sweh171	B new (h)
	13/C145	B1–2	Ad-158	VB906855	B new (i)
	13/C155	B1–3	13/C155	BIV	B new (l)
	12/C83	B1–3	ISSGd167	BIV	B new (m)
	11/28	B1	ISSGd167	BIV	B new (n)
	10/28	BIII	10/28~	VB906855	B new (o)
	12/C20	BIII	BIV	BIV	B new (p)
	12/C19	12/C19~	12/C19~	BIII	B new (q)

The isolates showing a novel MLG are specified by their identifier code (ID). ~ new sequence; ^asame MLG reported by [5]; ^bsame MLG reported by [7]