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[Investigation of the genetic profile of Blastocystis species in Saint Petersburg residents with gastrointestinal tract diseases in different age groups].
Meditsinskaia parazitologiia i parazitarnye bolezni - 1 Jan 2000
Sigidaev A S, Kozlov S S, Tarasova E A, Suvorova M A
Abstract excerpt
A total of 1500 people, including 1273 children with various gastrointestinal tract diseases and 327 patients with chronic viral hepatitis C, were examined. Microscopy and polymerase chain reaction (PCR) were used to determine Blastocystis in the feces. Blastocysts were detected in 33% of the patients with chronic viral hepatitis C and in 4.9% of the children. Genotyping established that Blastocystis species...
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