Molecular evidence of the camel strain (G6 genotype) of Echinococcus granulosus in humans from Turkana, Kenya

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-32

  Casulli, Adriano ^a   Zeyhle, Eberhard ^b   Brunetti, Enrico ^c   Pozio, Edoardo ^a   Meroni, Valeria ^c   Genco, Francesca ^c   Filice, Carlo ^c  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b AMREF HEALTH AFRICA   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PAVIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Camel strain; Echinococcus; Hydatidosis; Kenya; Molecular epidemiology; Sheep strain

Indexed keywords

HELMINTH DNA;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYST FLUID; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; GENE AMPLIFICATION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC EPIDEMIOLOGY; GENETIC STRAIN; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; KENYA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CAMELS; CATTLE; CATTLE DISEASES; DNA, HELMINTH; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; HUMANS; KENYA; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEEP; SHEEP DISEASES; ZOONOSES;

ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 70649096095     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trstmh.2009.08.001     Document Type: Article

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