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First report of Echinococcus granulosus G8 in Eurasia and a reappraisal of the phylogenetic relationships of 'genotypes' G5-G10.
Parasitology - 1 Apr 2008
Moks E, Jõgisalu I, Valdmann H, Saarma U
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In this study, we investigated the presence of the larval stage of the tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus in wild ungulates in Estonia, genetically characterized E. granulosus isolates using mitochondrial gene sequences and used the sequence data, together with those available in a public database, to infer the phylogenic relationships of E. granulosus 'genotypes' G5-G10. While 0.8% of the 2038 moose (Alces alces)...
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