Molecular epidemiology of human Blastocystis in a village in Yunnan province, China.

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Published in Parasitol Int on June 14, 2007

Authors

Lan-Hua Li1, Xiao-Nong Zhou, Zun-Wei Du, Xue-Zhong Wang, Li-Bo Wang, Jin-Yong Jiang, Hisao Yoshikawa, Peter Steinmann, Jürg Utzinger, Zhiliang Wu, Jia-Xu Chen, Shao-Hong Chen, Ling Zhang

Author Affiliations

1: National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Shanghai 200025, People's Republic of China.

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