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KMID : 0425120150530010105
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Parasites, Hosts and Diseases
2015 Volume.53 No. 1 p.105 ~ p.108
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Four Additional Cases of Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense Infection Confirmed by Analysis of COX1 Gene in Korea
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Park Sang-Hyun
Jeon Hyeong-Kyu
Kim Jin-Bong
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Abstract
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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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KEYWORD
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Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense, Diphyllobothrium latum, cox1 gene
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