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Genetic analysis of Echinococcus multilocularis originating from a patient with alveolar echinococcosis occurring in Minnesota in 1977.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene - 1 Aug 2008
Yamasaki Hiroshi, Nakao Minoru, Nakaya Kazuhiro, Schantz Peter M, Ito Akira
Abstract excerpt
To date, only a single proven case of autochthonous human alveolar echinococcosis has been recorded in Minnesota in 1977. At that time, echinococcal lesions removed from the patient were experimentally inoculated into voles, and the parasite materials obtained from the voles were preserved as histopathologic specimens for 30 years. In this study, retrospective genetic analysis of larval Echinococcus...
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