Article
Identification of Dirofilaria in man by multilocus electrophoretic analysis.
Annals of tropical medicine and parasitology - 1 Oct 1991
Cancrini G, D'Amelio S, Mattiucci S, Coluzzi M
Abstract excerpt
Biochemical keys based on the electrophoretic patterns of nine enzymatic loci diagnostic between Dirofilaria repens and D. immitis were used to examine an immature female of Dirofilaria removed from a 32-year-old woman resident in Caserta, Italy. The worm, tentatively assigned on a morphological basis to D. conjunctivae-D. repens, showed at all the loci examined the same electrophoretic pattern as an Italian dog...
Topics
- Adult
- Alleles
- Animals
- Breast
- Breast Diseases
- Dirofilaria
- Dirofilariasis
- Electrophoresis
- Female
- Humans
