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Diverse molecular data demonstrate that commercially available medicinal leeches are not Hirudo medicinalis.

Proceedings. Biological sciences - 22 Jun 2007

Siddall Mark E, Trontelj Peter, Utevsky Serge Y, Nkamany Mary, Macdonald Kenneth S

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The European medicinal leech is one of vanishingly few animal species with direct application in modern medicine. In addition to the therapeutic potential held by many protease inhibitors purified from leech saliva, and notwithstanding the historical association with quackery, Hirudo medicinalis has been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration as a prescription medical device. Accurate...

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PMID: 17426015
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0248
PMCID: PMC2176162

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