Echinococcus granulosus strain typing in Bulgaria: The G1 genotype is predominant in intermediate and definitive wild hosts

Parasitology Research

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 127-130

  Breyer, Isabel ^a   Georgieva, Dimitrina ^b   Kurdova, Rossitza ^c   Gottstein, Bruno ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b TRAKIA UNIVERSITY   (Bulgaria)

^c NATIONAL CENTER OF INFECTIOUS AND PARASITIC DISEASES   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ACT II GENE; AGB1 GENE; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BULGARIA; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; GENE; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOME; GENOTYPE; HBX GENE; HOST; MITOCHONDRIAL GENETICS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE 1 GENE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SHEEP; SWINE; WILD TYPE; WOLF;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; ANIMALS, WILD; BASE SEQUENCE; BULGARIA; CATTLE; DNA, HELMINTH; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; GENOTYPE; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

BOS TAURUS; CANIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; OVIS ARIES; SUS SCROFA;

EID: 3042579822     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-004-1116-6     Document Type: Article

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