State-of-the-art Echinococcus and Taenia: Phylogenetic taxonomy of human-pathogenic tapeworms and its application to molecular diagnosis

Infection, Genetics and Evolution

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 444-452

  Nakao, Minoru ^a   Yanagida, Tetsuya ^a   Okamoto, Munehiro ^b   Knapp, Jenny ^a   Nkouawa, Agathe ^a   Sako, Yasuhito ^a   Ito, Akira ^a  

^a ASAHIKAWA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Echinococcus; Molecular diagnosis; Phylogeny; Taenia

Indexed keywords

CLADISTICS; CLINICAL CLASSIFICATION; DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; HUMAN; MOLECULAR ECOLOGY; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE VIRULENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; TAENIA; TAENIASIS; TAXONOMIC IDENTIFICATION;

ANIMALS; CESTODE INFECTIONS; ECHINOCOCCUS; HUMANS; MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; PHYLOGENY; TAENIA;

CESTODA; ECHINOCOCCUS; TAENIA; TAENIIDAE;

EID: 77951976968     PISSN: 15671348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.meegid.2010.01.011     Document Type: Review

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