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Cystic echinococcosis in Iceland: a brief history and genetic analysis of a 46-year-old Echinococcus isolate collected prior to the eradication of this zoonotic disease

Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is considered the most severe parasitic disease that ever affected the human population in Iceland. Before the start of eradication campaign in the 1860s, Iceland was a country with very high prevalence of human CE, with approximately every fifth person infected. Eradicati...

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Autores principales: Saarma, Urmas, Skirnisson, Karl, Björnsdottir, Thorunn Soley, Laurimäe, Teivi, Kinkar, Liina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cambridge University Press 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10261677/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37161714
http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0031182023000355