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Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) for differentiation between Thai and Myanmar strains of Wuchereria bancrofti by Surang Nuchprayoon; Alisa Junpee; Yong Poovorawan is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.

What is Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD) for differentiation between Thai and Myanmar strains of Wuchereria bancrofti about?

## Background Lymphatic filariasis (LF) is a mosquito-borne disease caused by mosquito-transmitted filarial nematodes, including __Wuchereria bancrofti__ and __Brugia malayi__. The Lymphatic Filariasis Elimination Program in Thailand has reduced the prevalence of nocturnally subperiodic __W. bancrofti__ (Thai strain), mainly transmitted by the __Ochlerotatus__ (__Aedes__) __niveus__ group in Thailand to 0.57/100,000 population. However, it is estimated that more than one million Myanmar migrants with high prevalence of bancroftian filariasis have settled in the large urban cities of Thailand. These infected migrants carry the nocturnally periodic __W. bancrofti__ (Myanmar strain) which has __Culex quinquefasciatus__ as the main mosquito vector. Although transmissions of the Myanmar strain of __W. bancrofti__ by the Thai __Cx. quinquefasciatus__ has never been reported, previous study showed that __Cx. quinquefasciatus__ could nurture the Myanmar strain of __W. bancrofti__ to the infective stage. Thus, the potential now exists for a re-emergence of bancroftian filariasis in Thailand. The present study was undertaken in an attempt to differentiate between the Thai and Myanmar strains

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Author

Surang Nuchprayoon; Alisa Junpee; Yong Poovorawan

Publisher

BioMed Central; Springer (Biomed Central Ltd.); [London]: BioMed Central, c2002-; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1475-2883)

Published

2007

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)