Species Giardia muris (Grassi, 1879)

Museums

Regional Maps

• Dimorphus muris Grassi, G.B. 1879. Dei Protozoi parassiti e specialmente quelle che sono nell' uomo. Gazzetta. Medica Italiana Lombarda 39(8): 445-448.

Generic Combinations

• Giardia muris (Grassi, 1879). —
  Kofoid, C. A. & Christiansen, E. B. 1915. On the Life-History of Giardia. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 1(11): 547–552 [Date published November] [551]

Distribution

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IBRA

Australian Alps (AA), Eyre Yorke Block (EYB), Flinders Lofty Block (FLB), Gawler (GAW), Kanmantoo (KAN), Naracoorte Coastal Plain (NCP), New England Tablelands (NET), NSW North Coast (NNC), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Coastal Plain (SCP), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Highlands (SEH), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Victorian Midlands (VM), Victorian Volcanic Plain (VVP)

Ecological Descriptors

Parasitic (host(s): Mus musculus Linnaeus, 1758 [MURIDAE] House Mouse (syn. M. domesticus; gut, antibodies (RIA))).

Associated Fauna References

Anders R.F., Roberts-Thomson I.C. & Mitchell G.F. 1982. Giardiasis in mice: analysis of humoral and cellular immune responses to Giardia muris. Parasite Immunology 4: 47-57 (Mus musculus)

Andrews R.H., Monis P.L. & Mayrhofer G. 1998. Comparison of the levels in intra-specific genetic variation within Giardia muris and Giardia intestinalis. International Journal for Parasitology 28: 1179-1185 (Mus musculus)

Derrick, E.H. & Mackerras, M.J. 1949. Diseases of laboratory mice. Fourth Annual Repport of the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (1949):13. pp. (Mus musculus)

Mackerras, M.J. 1958. Catalogue of Australian mammals and their recorded internal parasites. Part I. Monotremes and marsupials. Part II. Eutheria. Part III. Introduced herbivora and the domestic pig. Part IV. Man. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 83: 101-160 (Mus musculus)

Mayrhofer, G., Andrews, R.H., Ey, P.L., Albert, M.J., Grimmond, T.R. & Merry, D.J. 1992. The use of suckling mice to isolate and grow Giardia from mammalian faecal specimens for genetic analysis. Parasitology 105: 255-263 (Mus musculus)

Mayrhofer, G., Andrews, R.H., Ey, P.L. & Chilton, N.B. 1995. Division of Giardia isolates from humans into two genetically distinct assemblages by electrophoretic analysis of enzymes encoded at 27 loci and comparison with Giardia muris. Parasitology 111: 11-17 (Mus musculus)

Monis, P.T., Andrews, R.H., Mayrhofer, G. & Ey, P.L. 1999. Molecular systematics of the parasitic protozoan Giardia intestinalis. Molecular Biology and Evolution 16: 1135-1144 (Mus musculus)

Monis, P.T., Andrews, R.H., Mayrhofer, G. & Ey, P.L. 2003. Genetic diversity within the morphological species Giardia intestinalis and its relationship to host origin. Infection, Genetics and Evolution 3: 29-38 (Mus musculus)

Roberts-Thomson, I.C. & Mitchell, G.F. 1978. Giardiasis in mice. I. Prolonged infections in certain mouse strains and hypothymic (nude) mice. Gastroenterology 75: 42-46 (Mus musculus)

Roberts-Thomson, I.C. & Mitchell, G.F. 1979. Protection of mice against Giardia muris infection. Infection and Immunity 24: 971-973 (Mus musculus)

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