A Case of Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense Infection as Confirmed by Mitochondrial COX1 Gene Sequence Analysis
- Title
- A Case of Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense Infection as Confirmed by Mitochondrial COX1 Gene Sequence Analysis
- Author
- 윤재훈
- Keywords
- Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense; Diphyllobothrium latum; DNA; sequence; cox1; diagnosis
- Issue Date
- 2013-08
- Publisher
- 대한기생충학열대의학회
- Citation
- The Korean journal of parasitology. Aug 2013, 51(4), P.471-474
- Abstract
- Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense has been reported in Korea as Diphyllobothrium latum because of their close morphologic resemblance. We have identified a human case of D. nihonkaiense infection using the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (cox1) gene sequence analysis. On 18 February 2012, a patient who had consumed raw fish a month earlier visited our outpatient clinic with a long tapeworm parasite excreted in the feces. The body of the segmented worm was 2 m long and divided into the scolex (head) and proglottids. It was morphologically close to D. nihonkaiense and D. latum. The cox1 gene analysis showed 99.4% (340/342 bp) homology with D. nihonkaiense but only 91.8% (314/342 bp) homology with D. latum. The present study suggested that the Diphyllobothrium spp. infection in Korea should be analyzed with specific DNA sequence for an accurate species identification.
- URI
- http://parasitol.kr/journal/view.php?doi=10.3347/kjp.2013.51.4.471http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11754/45049
- ISSN
- 0023-4001; 1738-0006
- DOI
- 10.3347/kjp.2013.51.4.471
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- COLLEGE OF MEDICINE[S](의과대학) > MEDICINE(의학과) > Articles
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