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SUBMITTER: Kim HJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4277031 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
The Korean journal of parasitology 20141223 6
Until 2012, a total of 48 cases of diphyllobothriasis had been reported in Korea, all of which were morphologically identified as Diphyllobothrium latum. However, some of these specimens were analyzed by nucleotide sequencing of the mitochondrial cox1 gene, which showed that all were D. nihonkaiense, not D. latum. After that, 3 further cases of diphyllobothriasis were confirmed as D. nihonkaiense. In the present study, 3 new cases of D. nihonkaiense were detected from 2011 through 2013. The host ...[more]