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Volume 28, Number 6—June 2022
Dispatch

Fasciolopsis buski Detected in Humans in Bihar and Pigs in Assam, India

Dipshikha Saikia1, Yugal K. Prasad1, Suman Dahal, and Sudeep GhataniComments to Author 
Author affiliations: Sikkim University, Gangtok, India (D. Saikia, S. Dahal, S. Ghatani); Shri Shubh Lal Hospital and Research Centre, Sitamarhi, India (Y.K. Prasad)

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Table 2

Genetic variations in Fasciolopsis buski ITS2 and COI gene regions from India and other Asian countries*

Gene region Genetic distance
Among Indian isolates
From other Asian isolates†
Among other Asian isolates†
% Isolates Transitions/
transversions % Transitions/
transversions % Transitions/
transversions
Nuclear ribosomal ITS2 0–0.3 1/0 7.7–8.2 12/8 0 0/0
Mitochondrial COI
 0.4
 1/0
12.1–12.3
 36/46
0.5
 3/1
*COI, cytochrome oxidase subunit 1; ITS2, internal transcribed spacer 2
†Other Asian isolates from China and Vietnam

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1These first authors contributed equally to this article.

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