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Molecular characterization of Echinococcus granulosus in Tunisia and Mauritania by mitochondrial rrnS gene sequencing.
Parassitologia - 1 Dec 2007
Farjallah S, Busi M, Mahjoub M Ould, Slimane B Ben, Said K, D'Amelio S
Abstract excerpt
Cystic hydatid disease is a zoonotic parasitic disease caused by the cestode Echinococcus granulosus and represents a major public health problem in many countries around the world, including North Africa. E. granulosus exists as a series of genetic variants or strains which differ in a wide variety of criteria that impact on the epidemiology, pathology and control of cystic hydatid disease. Nucleotide sequencing...
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