How many species of whipworms do we share? Whipworms from man and other primates form two phylogenetic lineages

Folia Parasitol (Praha). 2015 Dec 3:62:2015.063. doi: 10.14411/fp.2015.063.

Jana Dolezalova^{1

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3}, Miroslav Obornik^{4

5}, Eva Hajduskova⁶, Milan Jirku⁶, Klara J Petrzelkova^{2

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8}, Petra Bolechova^{8

9}, Cristina Cutillas¹⁰, Rocio Callejon¹⁰, Jaros Jozef, Zuzana Berankova, David Modry^{2

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¹ Department of Physiology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic.
² Department of Pathology and Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic.
³ CEITEC - Central European Institute of Technology, University of Veterinary and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic.
⁴ Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.
⁵ Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic.
⁶ Institute of Parasitology, Biology Centre of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic;
⁷ Institute of Vertebrate Biology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic.
⁸ Liberec Zoo, Liberec, Czech Republic.
⁹ Department of Husbandry and Ethology of Animals, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Czech Republic.
¹⁰ Department of Microbiology and Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Sevilla University, Sevilla, Spain; 10 Department of Histology and Embryology, Faculty of Medicine, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic;

No abstract available

Keywords: Trichuris; diversity; humans; phylogeny; zoonotic potential.