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Four additional cases of Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense infection confirmed by analysis of COX1 gene in Korea
Sang Hyun Park1, Hyeong Kyu Jeon2, Jin Bong Kim1
1Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Chuncheon Sacred Heart Hospital, Chuncheon 200-704, Korea.
Abstract:
Most of the diphyllobothriid tapeworms isolated from human samples in the Republic of Korea (= Korea) have been identified as Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense by genetic analysis. This paper reports confirmation of D. nihonkaiense infections in 4 additional human samples obtained between 1995 and 2014, which were analyzed at the Department of Parasitology, Hallym University College of Medicine, Korea. Analysis of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase 1 (cox1) gene revealed a 98.5-99.5% similarity with a reference D. nihonkaiense sequence in GenBank. The present report adds 4 cases of D. nihonkaiense infections to the literature, indicating that the dominant diphyllobothriid tapeworm species in Korea is D. nihonkaiense but not D. latum.
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