Estimating helminth burdens using sibship reconstruction

Estimating helminth burdens using sibship reconstruction

Abstract Background Sibship reconstruction is a form of parentage analysis that can be used to identify the number of helminth parental genotypes infecting individual hosts using genetic data on only their offspring. This has the potential to be used for estimating individual worm burdens when adult...

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Main Authors: M. Inês Neves, Joanne P. Webster, Martin Walker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-09-01
Series:Parasites & Vectors
Subjects:
Parentage analysis
Sibship reconstruction
Worm burden
Schistosomiasis
Neglected tropical diseases
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13071-019-3687-1

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