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Mutation scanning-coupled tools for the analysis of genetic variation in Taenia and diagnosis - status and prospects.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Sept 2009
Gasser Robin B, Campbell Bronwyn E, Jex Aaron R
Abstract excerpt
Cestodes of the genus Taenia occur as adult tapeworms in the small intestine of carnivorous definitive hosts and are transmitted to particular mammalian intermediate hosts, in which they develop as fluid-filled larvae in tissues, causing the disease cysticercosis or coenuriasis. A number of species are of medical importance and/or cause losses to the meat and livestock industry mainly due to the condemnation of...
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