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Molecular Confirmation of Human Alveolar Echinococcosis in Poland
- Source :
- Scopus-Elsevier
- Publication Year :
- 2003
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 2003.
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Abstract
- Infections of humans with Echinococcus multilocularis, the causative agent of alveolar echinococcosis (AE), a zoonosis, have been described with increasing frequency in Poland since 1994. In the attempt to verify these reports, we analyzed specimens obtained from a representative group of Polish patients. Liver lesions in patients with AE that was diagnosed on the basis of results of histological and serological tests contained E. multilocularis DNA, as shown by the presence of specific microsatellite sequences and mitochondrial 12S rDNA. The same tests clearly distinguished between AE and cystic echinococcosis, which is caused by Echinococcus granulosus. These data are unequivocal proof that human infections with E. multilocularis occur in Poland.
- Subjects :
- Microbiology (medical)
Echinococcosis, Hepatic
Pathology
medicine.medical_specialty
biology
Cystic echinococcosis
Zoonosis
Alveolar echinococcosis
DNA, Helminth
Echinococcus multilocularis
biology.organism_classification
medicine.disease
Echinococcus
Serology
Infectious Diseases
Antigens, Helminth
Echinococcus multilocularis infection
parasitic diseases
medicine
Animals
Humans
Serologic Tests
In patient
Poland
Echinococcus granulosus
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15376591 and 10584838
- Volume :
- 37
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Clinical Infectious Diseases
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c2ce69c7afcdef235c9b01347bf407f9