Molecular characterization of livestock and human isolates of Echinococcus granulosus from south-west Iran

Journal of Helminthology

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 240-244

  Khademvatan, S ^a   Yousefi, E ^a   Rafiei, A ^a   Rahdar, M ^a   Saki, J ^a  

^a AHVAZ JUNDISHAPUR UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TRANSCRIBED SPACER 1; RIBOSOME DNA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA EXTRACTION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; GENE SEQUENCE; GENOTYPE; GOAT; IRAN; LIVER; LIVESTOCK; LUNG; NONHUMAN; PARASITE ISOLATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SHEEP;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL SPACER; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; GENOTYPE; GOATS; HUMANS; IRAN; LIVER; LIVESTOCK; LUNG; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 28S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SHEEP;

EID: 84877301481     PISSN: 0022149X     EISSN: 14752697     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0022149X12000296     Document Type: Article

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