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Species identification of human echinococcosis using histopathology and genotyping in northwestern China.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - 1 Jun 2008
Li Tiaoying, Ito Akira, Nakaya Kazuhiro, Qiu Jiamin, Nakao Minoru, Zhen Ren, Xiao Ning, Chen Xingwang, Giraudoux Patrick, Craig Philip S
Abstract excerpt
Human cystic echinococcosis, caused by infection with the larval stage of Echinococcus granulosus, and alveolar echinococcosis, caused by the larval form of E. multilocularis, are known to be important public health problems in western China. Echinococcus shiquicus is a new species of Echinococcus recently described in wildlife hosts from the eastern Tibetan plateau and its infectivity and/or pathogenicity in...
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