Cryptic diversity in hymenolepidid tapeworms infecting humans

Agathe Nkouawa, Voitto Haukisalmi, Tiaoying Li, Minoru Nakao, Antti Johannes Lavikainen, Xingwang Chen, Heikki Henttonen, Akira Ito

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An adult hymenolepidid tapeworm was recovered from a 52-year-old Tibetan woman during a routine epidemiological survey for human taeniasis/cysticercosis in Sichuan, China. Phylogenetic analyses based on sequences of nuclear 28S ribosomal DNA and mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1 showed that the human isolate is distinct from Hymenolepis diminuta and Hymenolepis nana, the common parasites causing human hymenolepiasis. Proglottids of the human isolate were unfortunately unsuitable for morphological identification. However, the resultant phylogeny demonstrated the human isolate to be a sister species to Hymenolepis hibernia from Apodemus mice in Eurasia. The present data clearly indicate that hymenolepidid tapeworms causing human infections are not restricted to only H. diminuta and H. nana.
Originalspråkengelska
TidskriftParasitology International
Volym65
Nummer2
Sidor (från-till)83-86
Antal sidor4
ISSN1383-5769
DOI
StatusPublicerad - 2015
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