Is Echinococcus intermedius a valid species?

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¹ Department of Parasitology, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Hokkaido 078-8510, Japan. Electronic address: nakao@asahikawa-med.ac.jp.
² Department of Bacteriology and Immunology/Immunobiology Program, Faculty of Medicine, PO Box 21, 00014 University of Helsinki, and HUSLAB, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Finland.
³ US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, US National Parasite Collection, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, USA.

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Minoru Nakao et al. Trends Parasitol. 2015 Aug.

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. 2015 Aug;31(8):342-3.

doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2015.04.012. Epub 2015 Jun 19.

¹ Department of Parasitology, Asahikawa Medical University, Asahikawa, Hokkaido 078-8510, Japan. Electronic address: nakao@asahikawa-med.ac.jp.
² Department of Bacteriology and Immunology/Immunobiology Program, Faculty of Medicine, PO Box 21, 00014 University of Helsinki, and HUSLAB, Division of Clinical Microbiology, Finland.
³ US Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service, US National Parasite Collection, Animal Parasitic Diseases Laboratory, Beltsville, MD, USA.

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Keywords: Echinococcus; evolution; taxonomy.

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Lymbery AJ, Jenkins EJ, Schurer JM, Thompson RC. Lymbery AJ, et al. Trends Parasitol. 2015 Aug;31(8):343-4. doi: 10.1016/j.pt.2015.05.005. Epub 2015 Jun 19. Trends Parasitol. 2015. PMID: 26101149 No abstract available.

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