Parasite Nucleotide Sequences

Parasite Nucleotide Sequences in Genbank 13/10/1995

The WHO asked me how many parasite genes had been sequenced. I didn't know but... the following table was constructed using the SRS query system at EBI for your entertainment, as of 28/03/96.


All Brugia spp.

2384

B. malayi

2344

B. pahangi

37

Other Brugia spp.

3

All Onchocerca

608

O. volvulus

596

Other Onchocerca spp.

12

Other filaria

17

Loa loa

6

Wuchereria bancrofti

10

Wuchereria kalimantani

1

Giardia spp.

128

Toxoplasma gondii

2712

Trypanosoma brucei

1265

Other African Trypanosoma spp.

996

Trypanosoma cruzi

269

All Leishmania spp.

703

L. aethiopica

5

L. amazonensis

17

L. brasiliensis

21

L. donovani

73

L. infantum

49

L. major

335

L. mexicana

56

Other Leishmania spp.

147

All Schistosoma spp.

1795

S. mansoni

1704

S. haematobium

43

S. japonicum

35

Other Schistosoma spp.

13

Plasmodium spp.

2218

P. falciparum

1907

P. vivax

1075

Other Plasmodium spp.

204