First insights into species and genotypes of Echinococcus in South Africa

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 196, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 427-432

  Mogoye, Benjamin K ^a   Menezes, Colin N ^b   Wong, Michelle L ^b   Stacey, Sarah ^b   von Delft, Dirk ^c   Wahlers, Kerstin ^d   Wassermann, Marion ^e   Romig, Thomas ^e   Kern, Peter ^f   Grobusch, Martin P ^g   Frean, John ^a,b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c WALTER SISULU UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ULM   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cystic echinococcosis; Dog; Echinococcus granulosus; Genotype; Human; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATTLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS CANADENSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHINOCOCCUS ORTLEPPI; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE LOCALIZATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; STRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

CANIS FAMILIARIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHINOCOCCUS ORTLEPPI;

CYSTIC ECHINOCOCCOSIS; DOG; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; SOUTH AFRICA;

ANIMALS; CATTLE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84881542091     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2013.03.033     Document Type: Article

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