Four Additional Cases of Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense Infection Confirmed by Analysis of COX1 Gene in Korea
The Korean Journal of Parasitology
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: 105-108, 2015.
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| ID: wpr-130554
ABSTRACT
Most of the diphyllobothriid tapeworms isolated from human samples in the Republic of Korea (= Korea) have been identified as Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense by genetic analysis. This paper reports confirmation of D. nihonkaiense infections in 4 additional human samples obtained between 1995 and 2014, which were analyzed at the Department of Parasitology, Hallym University College of Medicine, Korea. Analysis of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase 1 (cox1) gene revealed a 98.5-99.5% similarity with a reference D. nihonkaiense sequence in GenBank. The present report adds 4 cases of D. nihonkaiense infections to the literature, indicating that the dominant diphyllobothriid tapeworm species in Korea is D. nihonkaiense but not D. latum.
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WPRIM (Western Pacific)
Main subject:
Phylogeny
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Molecular Sequence Data
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Base Sequence
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Cluster Analysis
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Sequence Homology
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Sequence Analysis, DNA
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Electron Transport Complex IV
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Diphyllobothriasis
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Diphyllobothrium
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Republic of Korea
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Animals
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Country/Region as subject:
Asia
Language:
English
Journal:
The Korean Journal of Parasitology
Year:
2015
Type:
Article
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