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Enzyme polymorphisms in Ascaris lumbricoides in Bangladesh.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene - 1 Jan 2000
Ibrahim A P, Conway D J, Hall A, Bundy D A
Abstract excerpt
Fourteen enzymes of Ascaris lumbricoides were analysed electrophoretically on cellulose acetate plates; 8 stained well and 3 were found to be polymorphic. Allelic and genotypic frequencies at the 3 polymorphic enzyme loci, Mpi, Pgi and 6-Pgd, were determined in a sample of 117 worms from 8 children living in different houses in an urban slum in Bangladesh. Allele frequencies in samples of parasites from the...
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