Characterization of a non-sexual population of Strongyloides stercoralis with hybrid 18S rDNA haplotypes in Guangxi, Southern China.

• Main Authors: Siyu Zhou (Author), Xiaoyin Fu (Author), Pei Pei (Author), Marek Kucka (Author), Jing Liu (Author), Lili Tang (Author), Tingzheng Zhan (Author), Shanshan He (Author), Yingguang Frank Chan (Author), Christian Rödelsperger (Author), Dengyu Liu (Author), Adrian Streit (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Strongyloidiasis is a much-neglected but sometimes fatal soil born helminthiasis. The causing agent, the small intestinal parasitic nematode Strongyloides stercoralis can reproduce sexually through the indirect/heterogonic life cycle, or asexually through the auto-infective or the direct/homogonic l...