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A new cost-effective method using silicon dioxide- and guanidine isothiocyanate-containing buffers, after previous alkaline lysis, was established for the DNA extraction from taeniid eggs isolated from canine faeces. The purified DNA can be used to amplify the species-specific 12S mitochondrial DNA of Echinococcus multilocularis in direct and nested polymerase chain reaction in order to differentiate between E. multilocularis and Taenia spp.
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Dyachenko, V., Beck, E., Pantchev, N. et al. Cost-effective method of DNA extraction from taeniid eggs. Parasitol Res 102, 811–813 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00436-007-0855-6
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