Article
Cystic echinococcosis: Future perspectives of molecular epidemiology.
Acta tropica - 1 Jan 2017
Ito Akira, Nakao Minoru, Lavikainen Antti, Hoberg Eric
Abstract excerpt
Human cystic echinococcosis (CE) has been considered to be caused predominantly by Echinococcus granulosus sensu stricto (the dog-sheep strain). Molecular approaches on CE, however, have revealed that human cases are also commonly caused by another species, Echinococcus canadensis. All indices for classification and standardization of CE pathology including available images, epidemiology, diagnostics and...
Topics
- Animals
- Echinococcosis, Hepatic
- Echinococcus
- Genotype
- Humans
- Molecular Epidemiology
