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Human dispersal of Trichinella spiralis in domesticated pigs.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Dec 2008
Rosenthal Benjamin M, LaRosa Giuseppe, Zarlenga Dante, Dunams Detiger, Chunyu Yao, Mingyuan Liu, Pozio Edoardo
Abstract excerpt
To investigate the human impact on the evolutionary ecology of animal pathogens, we compared genetic diversity of severe foodborne parasites contracted by eating infected pork or wild game. In particular, we characterized Trichinella spp. from twenty-eight countries and four continents by genotyping nine microsatellite loci and sequencing one-fifth of the mitochondrial genome. All specimens of Trichinella...
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