Phylogenetic Placement of Egyptian Taenia saginata and Cysticercus bovis

3 Abstract: Taenia saginata (T. saginata) is a tapeworms that causes taeniasis in humans and cysticercosis in intermediate host animals as cattle. Taeniases remain an important public health concerns in the world. Molecular diagnostic methods using PCR assays have been developed for rapid and accurate detection of human and animal infecting taeniid tapeworms, including the use of sequence-specific DNA primers PCR amplifications using 7 samples (4 of bovine cysticercus and 3 of human adult worm) for HDP2 gene with the molecular size of about 599bp. Sequencing of the fragments was performed and the sequence obtained (Accession number JX265977) was compared with the published sequences for taeniids and the identity of the samples was determined. The objectives of the present study were molecular diagnose and characterization of cysticercus bovis and adult T. saginata samples by PCR, sequencing and phylogenetic relationship of Egyptian T. saginata.