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Assessment of Echinococcus granulosus polymorphism in Qinghai province, People's Republic of China.
Parasitology research - 1 May 2008
Ma S M, Maillard S, Zhao H L, Huang X, Wang H, Geng P L, Bart J-M, Piarroux R
Abstract excerpt
Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is highly endemic in the Chinese province of Qinghai, located on the Tibetan Plateau. The Echinococcus granulosus sheep strain has already been reported in this focus. To improve our understanding of the role the parasite plays in the high prevalence observed in humans, we assessed the genetic polymorphism of 55 E. granulosus samples (37 from humans) using three discriminative...
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