Transcriptome profiles of the protoscoleces of Echinococcus granulosus reveal that excretory-secretory products are essential to metabolic adaptation.

• Main Authors: Wei Pan (Author), Yujuan Shen (Author), Xiuming Han (Author), Ying Wang (Author), Hua Liu (Author), Yanyan Jiang (Author), Yumei Zhang (Author), Yanjuan Wang (Author), Yuxin Xu (Author), Jianping Cao (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2014-12-01T00:00:00Z.
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Cystic hydatid disease (CHD) is caused by the larval stages of the cestode and affects humans and domestic animals worldwide. Protoscoleces (PSCs) are one component of the larval stages that can interact with both definitive and intermediate hosts. Previous genomic and transcriptomic data have provi...