Article
Genetic structure and epidemiology of Ascaris populations: patterns of host affiliation in Guatemala.
Parasitology - 1 Sept 1993
Anderson T J, Romero-Abal M E, Jaenike J
Abstract excerpt
In Guatemalan villages people commonly rear pigs, and both hosts may be infected with Ascaris. This study was designed to ask whether both humans and pigs are potential hosts in a single parasite transmission cycle in such villages, or alternatively, if there are two separate transmission cycles,...
Topics
- Alleles
- Animals
- Ascariasis
- Ascaris
- Base Sequence
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- DNA Primers
- DNA, Mitochondrial
- Electrophoresis, Starch Gel
- Gene Frequency
- Guatemala
- Haplotypes
- Humans
- Isoenzymes
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Phylogeny
- Polymorphism, Restriction Fragment Length