Imported diphyllobothriasis in Switzerland: Molecular evidence of Diphyllobothrium dendriticum (Nitsch, 1824)

Parasitology Research

Volumn 102, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 201-204

  Wicht, Barbara ^a   De Marval, Floriane ^b   Gottstein, Bruno ^c   Peduzzi, Raffaele ^a  

^a Istituto Cantonale di Microbiologia   (Switzerland)

^b Unilabs   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALBENDAZOLE; PRAZIQUANTEL;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC DIARRHEA; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIASIS; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM DENDRITICUM; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALS; ANTHELMINTICS; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIASIS; DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM; DNA, HELMINTH; FECES; FEMALE; FOOD PARASITOLOGY; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRAZIQUANTEL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 18S; SALMON; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWITZERLAND;

DIPHYLLOBOTHRIUM DENDRITICUM;

EID: 36749101527     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-007-0745-y     Document Type: Article

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