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Development of allele-specific PCR methodology (AS-PCR) to screening A. lumbricoides and A. suum.
Parasitology research - 1 Aug 2022
Dos Santos Talita Rodrigues, Furtado Luis Fernando Viana, de Carvalho Araujo Andreina, da Silva Medeiros Celi, Germano Pedro Henrique Vieira, de Oliveira Valéria Nayara Gomes Mendes, Rabelo Elida Mara Leite
Abstract excerpt
Ascaris lumbricoides and Ascaris suum are described as helminths that infect humans and pigs, respectively. It is estimated that infection by A. lumbricoides affects about 447 million individuals living in tropical regions of developing countries. However, there is an increasing number of cases of human ascariasis in countries with no recent history of autochthonous infection by A. lumbricoides. In these places,...
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