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Complete mitochondrial exploration of Echinococcus multilocularis from French alveolar echinococcosis patients.
International journal for parasitology - 1 Sept 2023
Bohard Louis, Lallemand Séverine, Borne Romain, Courquet Sandra, Bresson-Hadni Solange, Richou Carine, Millon Laurence, Bellanger Anne-Pauline, Knapp Jenny
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Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a parasitosis that is expanding worldwide, including in Europe. The development of genotypic markers is essential to follow its spatiotemporal evolution. Sequencing of the commonly used mitochondrial genes cob, cox1, and nad2 shows low discriminatory power, and analysis of the microsatellite marker EmsB does not allow nucleotide sequence analysis. We aimed to develop a new method...
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