| Entry | T05553 |
| Org code | egl |
| Name | Echinococcus granulosus (hydatid tapeworm) |
| Annotation | yes |
| Taxonomy | TAX: 6210 |
| Lineage | Eukaryota; Opisthokonta; Metazoa; Eumetazoa; Bilateria; Protostomia; Spiralia; Lophotrochozoa; Platyhelminthes; Cestoda; Eucestoda; Cyclophyllidea; Taeniidae; Echinococcus; Echinococcus granulosus group |
| Brite | KEGG organisms [BR:br08601]
KEGG organisms in the NCBI taxonomy [BR:br08610]
KEGG organisms in taxonomic ranks [BR:br08611]
KEGG organisms: animals [BR:br08612] |
| Data source | RefSeq (Assembly: GCF_000524195.1 Scaffold)
BioProject: 182977 |
| Keywords | Human pathogen |
| Disease | H01153 Human echinococcosis |
| Comment | The larval (metacestode) stage causes hydatidosis (cystic hydatid disease; cystic echinococcosis), a chronic cyst-forming disease in the intermediate (human) host.
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| Statistics | Number of protein genes: 11331
Number of RNA genes: 23
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| Created | 2018 |
| Reference | PMID: 24013640 |
| Authors | Zheng H, Zhang W, Zhang L, Zhang Z, Li J, Lu G, Zhu Y, Wang Y, Huang Y, Liu J, et al. |
| Title | The genome of the hydatid tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus. |
| Journal | Nat Genet 45:1168-75 (2013)
DOI: 10.1038/ng.2757 |
Echinococcus granulosus (hydatid tapeworm)