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SUBMITTER: Ma DW
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7672228 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ma Da-Won DW Lee Myoung-Ro MR Ku Bora B Cho Shin-Hyeong SH Lee Sang-Eun SE
The Korean journal of parasitology 20201022 5
Cyclospora cayetanensis is an apicomplexan protozoan and is one of the most common pathogens causing chronic diarrhea worldwide. Eight stool samples with diarrheal symptom out of 18 Korean residents who traveled to Nepal were obtained, and examined for 25 enteropathogens including 16 bacterial species, 5 viral species, and 4 protozoans in stool samples as causative agents of water-borne and food-borne disease. Only C. cayetanensis was detected by nested PCR, and 3 PCR-positive samples were seque ...[more]