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Molecular epidemiology and genetic diversity of Blastocystis infection in humans in Italy.
Epidemiology and infection - 1 Feb 2016
Mattiucci S, Crisafi B, Gabrielli S, Paoletti M, Cancrini G
Abstract excerpt
In order to describe the molecular epidemiology of Blastocystis infection in Italy, 189 isolates, which had been collected during the years 2012-2014 from mildly symptomatic patients, or those affected by inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) or chronic diarrhoea, or otherwise immunosuppressed, were subtyped by sequence analysis of the SSU rRNA gene (536 bp). Six subtypes (STs) were...
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