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Hidden Population Structure and Cross-species Transmission of Whipworms (Trichuris sp.) in Humans and Non-human Primates in Uganda

BACKGROUND: Whipworms (Trichuris sp.) are a globally distributed genus of parasitic helminths that infect a diversity of mammalian hosts. Molecular methods have successfully resolved porcine whipworm, Trichuris suis, from primate whipworm, T. trichiura. However, it remains unclear whether T. trichiu...

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Autores principales: Ghai, Ria R., Simons, Noah D., Chapman, Colin A., Omeja, Patrick A., Davies, T. Jonathan, Ting, Nelson, Goldberg, Tony L.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4207677/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25340752
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003256