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Molecular identification of Echinococcus species from eastern and southern Qinghai, China, based on the mitochondrial cox1 gene.
Parasitology research - 1 Jul 2012
Ma Junying, Wang Hu, Lin Gonghua, Craig Philip S, Ito Akira, Cai Zhenyuan, Zhang Tongzuo, Han Xiumin, Ma Xiao, Zhang Jingxiao, Liu Yufang, Zhao Yanmei, Wang Yongshun
Abstract excerpt
The Qinghai-Tibetan Plateau (QTP, in western China), which is the largest and highest plateau on Earth, is a highly epidemic region for Echinococcus spp. We collected 70 Echinococcus samples from humans, dogs, sheep, yaks, plateau pikas, and voles in eastern and southern Qinghai and genotyped them using the mitochondrial DNA marker cytochrome oxidase subunit I gene and maximum parsimony and Bayesian...
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