Ascariasis in Japan: Is pig-derived Ascaris infecting humans?

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 447-448

  Arizono, Naoki ^a   Yoshimura, Yuta ^a   Tohzaka, Naoki ^a   Yamada, Minoru ^a   Tegoshi, Tatsuya ^a   Onishi, Kotaro ^a   Uchikawa, Ryuichi ^b  

^a KYOTO PREFECTURAL UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b CHIBA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE SUBUNIT 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS LUMBRICOIDES; ASCARIS SUUM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDEMIC DISEASE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANIMALS; ASCARIASIS; ASCARIS SUUM; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; HUMANS; JAPAN; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SWINE; SWINE DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT; ZOONOSES;

EID: 78649598206     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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