Abstract

Detection of European Strain of<i>Echinococcus multilocularis</i>in North America

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  • Two independent subsamples of cyst material were fixed in 70% ethanol and shipped to the University of Regina, Regina, Saskatchewan, for PCR using primers targeting microsatellite loci EmsB and NAK 1 [5,6]

  • The British Columbia (BC) dog sample was homozygous for the 198-bp allele at NAK 1, a genotype found in a variety of locations in Europe and Japan but not in North America, where the dominant genotype appears to be homozygous 192 [5]

  • Mitochondrial and microsatellite characterization showed that the genotype of E. multilocularis found in the BC dog was most similar to those described from west-central Europe

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Differentiation of spotted fever group rickettsiae by sequencing and analysis of restriction fragment length polymorphism of PCRamplified DNA of the gene encoding the protein rOmpA. Address for correspondence: José de la Fuente, Instituto de Investigación en Recursos Cinegéticos IREC-CSIC-UCLM-JCCM, Ronda de Toledo s/n, 13005 Ciudad Real, Spain; email: jose_delafuente@yahoo.com Detection of European Strain of Echinococcus multilocularis in North America

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