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- Title
Echinococcus granulosus genomics: a new dawn for improved diagnosis, treatment, and control of echinococcosis.
- Authors
Wenbao Zhang; Shengyue Wang; McManus, Donald P.
- Abstract
Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a cosmopolitan disease caused by the dog tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus. The disease is difficult to diagnose, treat, and control and is responsible for considerable human morbidity and mortality globally. There is an urgent need for new diagnostic tests and new drugs for treatment of CE and the development of a vaccine against adult worms of E. granulosus in dogs. We recently presented a draft genomic sequence for the worm comprising 151.6 Mb encoding 11,325 proteins. We undertook an extensive comparative analysis of the E. granulosus transcriptome using representative life stages (protoscoleces, cyst germinal cells and membranes, adult worms, and oncospheres) to explore different aspects of tapeworm biology and parasitism. The genome and transcriptome of E. granulosus provide a unique platform for post-genomic research and to facilitate the development of new, effective treatments and interventions for echinococcosis control.
- Subjects
ECHINOCOCCOSIS; CYSTS (Pathology); DOG parasites; ECHINOCOCCUS granulosus; TAPEWORMS; TAPEWORM infections
- Publication
Parasite (1252607X), 2014, Vol 21, p1
- ISSN
1252-607X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1051/parasite/2014066