Solitary neurocysticercosis case caused by Asian genotype of Taenia solium confirmed by mitochondrial DNA analysis

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 3891-3893

  Yamasaki, Hiroshi ^a   Matsunaga, Shigeo ^b,d   Yamamura, Koji ^b   Chang, Chia Cheng ^b   Kawamura, Shunji ^c,e   Sako, Yasuhito ^a   Nakao, Minoru ^a   Nakaya, Kazuhiro ^a   Ito, Akira ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b Yokohama Minami Kyosai Hospital   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA ROSAI HOSPITAL   (Japan)

^d NATIONAL HOSPITAL ORGANIZATION YOKOHAMA MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^e TOKYO WOMEN'S MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASIAN; CASE REPORT; DNA DETERMINATION; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; NEUROCYSTICERCOSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; TAENIA SOLIUM;

ANIMALS; ASIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN DISEASES; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, NUCLEIC ACID; TAENIA SOLIUM; TAENIASIS;

CESTODA; TAENIA; TAENIA SOLIUM;

EID: 3843131887     PISSN: 00951137     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1128/JCM.42.8.3891-3893.2004     Document Type: Article

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