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Four Additional Cases of Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense Infection Confirmed by Analysis of COX1 Gene in Korea

  • Park, Sang Hyun (Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Chuncheon Sacred Heart Hospital) ;
  • Jeon, Hyeong Kyu (Department of Parasitology and Medical Research Institute, Chungbuk National University College of Medicine) ;
  • Kim, Jin Bong (Department of Internal Medicine, Hallym University Chuncheon Sacred Heart Hospital)
  • Received : 2014.05.20
  • Accepted : 2014.10.09
  • Published : 2015.02.28
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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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