Parasites, Hosts and Diseases

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Molecular identification of Korean Trichinella isolates

  • Sohn, Woon-Mok (Department of Parasitology and Institute of Institute of Health Sciences, Gyeongsang National University College of Medicine) ;
  • Hun, Sun (Department of Parasitology, College of Medicine, Hallym University) ;
  • Chung, Dong-Il (Department of Parasitology, Kyungpook National University School of Medicine) ;
  • Pozio, Edoardo (Laboratory of Parasitology, Instituto Superiore di Sanita)
  • Published : 2003.06.01
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Abstract

Muscle larvae of Trichinella isolates from two outbreaks in Korea were analyzed by a polymerase chain reaction-restriction fragment length polymorphism (PCR-RFLP) and multiple-PCR. All of the muscle larvae showed a band similar to that of T. spiralis larvae of the reference strain. The two Korean Trichinella isolates (isolate code ISS623 and ISS1078) might be classifiable to Trichinella spiralis.

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