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Interspecific characterization of several taeniid cestodes by isoenzyme analysis using isoelectric focusing in agarose

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 April 2009

B. A. Allsopp ,
A. Jones ,
M. T. E. P. Allsopp ,
S. D. Newton  and
C. N. L. Macpherson
B. A. Allsopp
Affiliation:
Veterinary Research Department, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, P.O. Box 32, Kikuyu, KE
A. Jones
Affiliation:
CAB International Institute of Parasitology, 395A Hatfield Road, St. Albans, Herts. AL4 0XU, England
M. T. E. P. Allsopp
Affiliation:
Veterinary Research Department, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, P.O. Box 32, Kikuyu, KE
S. D. Newton
Affiliation:
Veterinary Research Department, Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, P.O. Box 32, Kikuyu, KE
C. N. L. Macpherson
Affiliation:
African Medical and Research Foundation, P.O. Box 30125, Nairobi, KE
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Summary

Taenia cestodes were obtained from 5 different definitive host species in Kenya and 175 different samples were examined by classical morphological methods and by isoenzyme analysis using isoelectric focusing in agarose. Gels were stained for 17 different enzymes and 3 of these were used in the construction of isoenzyme profiles. The samples fell into 25 zymodemes, and no zymodeme contained more than 1 species of Taenia, indicating that isoenzyme analysis can reliably be used for the identification of species of this genus.

Type
Research Article
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Parasitology , Volume 95 , Issue 3 , December 1987 , pp. 593 - 601
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1987

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