1. Fasciola hepatica Infection in an Indigenous Community of the Peruvian Jungle
- Author
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Martha Lopez, Arthur Clinton White, Maria A. Caravedo, Alejandro Castellanos-Gonzalez, Miguel M. Cabada, and Eulogia Arque
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0301 basic medicine ,Male ,Veterinary medicine ,Fascioliasis ,Polymerase Chain Reaction/methods ,Adolescent ,030231 tropical medicine ,Zoology ,Polymerase Chain Reaction ,Indigenous ,Gene Expression Regulation, Enzymologic ,law.invention ,Electron Transport Complex IV ,03 medical and health sciences ,Feces ,Young Adult ,0302 clinical medicine ,fluids and secretions ,Population Groups ,law ,Hepatica ,Electron Transport Complex IV/genetics ,Virology ,parasitic diseases ,Peru ,Fasciola hepatica ,Animals ,Humans ,Child ,Polymerase chain reaction ,Zoonotic Infection ,biology ,Fasciola ,Amazon rainforest ,Feces/parasitology ,Articles ,030108 mycology & parasitology ,biology.organism_classification ,digestive system diseases ,Infectious Diseases ,Fasciola hepatica/enzymology/genetics ,Phyllachorales ,Parasitology ,Female ,Fascioliasis/epidemiology ,Peru/epidemiology ,purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#3.03.06 [https] - Abstract
Fasciola hepatica is a zoonotic infection with a worldwide distribution. Autochthonous cases have not been reported in the Amazon region of Peru. Operculated eggs resembling F. hepatica were identified in the stools of five out of 215 subjects in a remote indigenous community of the Peruvian jungle. Polymerase chain reaction targeting Fasciola hepatica cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI) gene and sequencing of the products confirmed Fasciola infection.
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- 2015