Diagnosis of Taenia solium infections based on "mail order" RNA-sequencing of single tapeworm egg isolates from stool samples.
Sadlowski H, Schmidt V, Hiss J, Kuehn JA, Schneider CG, Zulu G, Hachangu A, Sikasunge CS, Mwape KE, Winkler AS, Schuelke M.
Sadlowski H, et al.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2021 Dec 10;15(12):e0009787. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0009787. eCollection 2021 Dec.
PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2021.
PMID: 34890398
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One major reason is that the widely available stool microscopy may identify Taenia ssp. eggs in stool samples as such, but fails to distinguish between invasive (T. solium) and less invasive Taenia (T. saginata, T. asiatica, and T. hydatigena) species. ...Here we pr …
One major reason is that the widely available stool microscopy may identify Taenia ssp. eggs in stool samples as such, but fails to d …