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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE
Volume 88, Issue 6, Pages 1180-1184Publisher
AMER SOC TROP MED & HYGIENE
DOI: 10.4269/ajtmh.12-0766
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Head and body lice are strict obligate human ectoparasites with three mitochondrial phylotypes (A, B, and C). Using molecular methods for genotyping lice (Cytochrome b and multi-spacer typing), and comparing our results with all the sequences of human lice that were genotyped previously, we assessed the presence of a specific American genotype that most likely predates the Columbian era in head lice collected from Amazonia.
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