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Abstract

A weighted, multi-attribute approach was used to compare three methods for direct extraction of DNA from 15 microscopy-positive stools: (1) a QIAamp spin-column method for stools including a 10 min incubation at 95 °C, (2) method 1 preceded by five freeze–thaw cycles and (3) bead beating with guanidine thiocyanate using a FastPrep-28 machine followed by liquid-phase silica purification of DNA. The attributes compared included DNA yield measured using a new triose phosphate isomerase () gene probe-based real-time PCR, also described here. All three methods shared 100 % PCR positivity, while the bead-beating method provided the highest DNA yield (<0.01). However, when other weighted attributes, including biocontainment, resources and technical requirements, were also considered, spin-column extraction with prior freeze–thaw treatment (method 2) was deemed the most desirable and was selected for use. The real-time PCR typing assay was designed to discriminate between the main human infectious assemblages of s (A and B) and was evaluated initially using standard isolates. Validation using microscopy-positive stools from 78 clinical giardiasis cases revealed 100 % typability; 20 (26 %) samples contained assemblage A, 56 (72 %) assemblage B and two (3 %) assemblages A and B. While the epidemiological significance of assemblage distribution will be revealed as more isolates are typed and analysed with patient demographic and exposure data, the utility of this assay and its ready application in our laboratory workflow and result turnaround margins is already evident.

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