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Development of a single larva microsatellite analysis to investigate the population structure of Trichinella spiralis.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2012
La Rosa Giuseppe, Marucci Gianluca, Rosenthal Benjamin M, Pozio Edoardo
Abstract excerpt
Trichinella spiralis is the most important etiological agent of human trichinellosis. It has a cosmopolitan distribution and is transmitted to humans mainly through the consumption of pork. In nature, transmission occurs among animals through the ingestion of an infected carcass by one or more hosts. Microsatellite markers have provided insight into how T. spiralis dispersed geographically over its evolutionary...
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