Human alveolar echinococcosis in Slovakia: Epidemiology and genetic diversity of Echinococcus multilocularis, 2000-2023.

"the nucleotide sequences of 20 isolates detected in cob (603 bp) were deposited in genbank under accession numbers op277487-op277506.; the sequences of 19 isolates detected in nad2 (882 bp) were deposited under accession numbers op277507 -op277525.; the sequences of 16 isolates detected in cox1 (789 bp) were deposited under accession numbers op225398 op225402 op225448 op225555 op225644 op225830 and op225945-54.; the sequences of 21 isolates detected in nad1 (395 bp) were deposited under accession numbers mw326786-7 mw343787-9 mw357715 mw366778-79 mw384819-20 and op356581-op356591. s1 table (xlsx"

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"The research was financially supported by the Slovak Research and Development Agency under the contract No. APVV-21-0166 to MM and by the Science Grant Agency, projects VEGA 2/0107/20 to DA and VEGA 2/0157/22 to VŠ, and by the NextGenerationEU through the Recovery and Resilience Plan for Slovakia under the project No. 09I03-03-V01-00046 (YS). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript."