Assembly and phylogeographical analysis of novel Taenia solium mitochondrial genomes suggest stratification within the African-American genotype by Gabriel Jiménez-Avalos, Alina Soto-Obando, Maria Solis, Robert H. Gilman, Vitaliano Cama, Armando E. Gonzalez, Hector H. García, Patricia Sheen, David Requena, Mirko Zimic, for the Cysticercosis Working Group in Peru

“…The presence of the East African sublineage in the Americas suggests an underestimated connection between East African and Latin American countries that might have arisen in the major slave trade between Portuguese Mozambique and the Americas. The results obtained here help to complete the molecular epidemiology of the parasite. …”
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