TY - JOUR AU - Flores-Chavez, Maria AU - Gonzalez, Luis Miguel AU - Hurtado, Carolina AU - Motta, Yamileth Monje AU - Dominguez-Hidalgo,Cristina AU - Merino, Francisco Jesús AU - Perteguer-Prieto, Maria Jesus AU - Garate, Teresa PY - 2018 DO - 10.1186/s13071-018-2646-6 SN - 1756-3305 UR - http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/7377 AB - BACKGROUND: Taenia solium, T. asiatica and T. saginata tapeworms cause human taeniasis and are the origin of porcine and bovine cysticercosis. Furthermore, T. solium eggs can cause human cysticercosis, with neurocysticercosis being the most serious... LA - eng PB - BioMed Central (BMC) KW - Diagnosis KW - Ribosomal DNA KW - Taenia saginata KW - Taenia solium KW - Taeniasis KW - cPCR KW - qPCR KW - Adolescent KW - Adult KW - Africa KW - Animals KW - Asia KW - Cysticercosis KW - DNA, Helminth KW - DNA, Ribosomal KW - Diagnosis, Differential KW - Feces KW - Female KW - Humans KW - Intestines KW - Male KW - Middle Aged KW - Molecular Diagnostic Techniques KW - Neurocysticercosis KW - Real-Time Polymerase Chain Reaction KW - Species Specificity KW - Taenia KW - Taenia saginata KW - Taenia solium KW - Taeniasis KW - Young Adult TI - HDP2: a ribosomal DNA (NTS-ETS) sequence as a target for species-specific molecular diagnosis of intestinal taeniasis in humans TY - journal article ER -