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Assessment of use of microsatellite polymorphism analysis for improving spatial distribution tracking of echinococcus multilocularis.
Journal of clinical microbiology - 1 Sept 2007
Knapp J, Bart J M, Glowatzki M L, Ito A, Gerard S, Maillard S, Piarroux R, Gottstein B
Abstract excerpt
Alveolar echinococcosis (AE)--caused by the cestode Echinococcus multilocularis--is a severe zoonotic disease found in temperate and arctic regions of the northern hemisphere. Even though the transmission patterns observed in different geographical areas are heterogeneous, the nuclear and mitochondrial targets usually used for the genotyping of E. multilocularis have shown only a marked genetic homogeneity in...
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