Genetic Diversity
As many individuals are asymptomatic carriers of D. fragilis it is proposed there exist a pathogenic and non-pathogenic variants. A study of Dientamoeba fragilis isolates from 60 individuals with symptomatic infection in Sydney Australia found that all were infected with the same genotype, which differed from the North American genotype.
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