Short report: Genetic analysis of Echinococcus multilocularis originating from a patient with alveolar echinococcosis occurring in Minnesota in 1977

American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 245-247

  Yamasaki, Hiroshi ^a   Nakao, Minoru ^b   Nakaya, Kazuhiro ^b   Schantz, Peter M ^c   Ito, Akira ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (Japan)

^b ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR EMERGING AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN; HELMINTH DNA; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; DNA ISOLATION; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INOCULATION; LUNG HYDATID CYST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; TISSUE SECTION; UNITED STATES; VOLE; ANIMAL; ARVICOLINAE; CASE REPORT; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LIVER HYDATID CYST; MIDDLE AGED; PARASITOLOGY;

ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; MURIDAE;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 49449102944     PISSN: 00029637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.2008.79.245     Document Type: Article

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