Table 1.

Geographical origin of the 6 Taenia saginata and 13 Taenia asiatica samples analyzed^a.

Sample origin	Sample code number and species*
	Taenia saginata	Taenia asiatica
Indonesia		#12
Korea		#16, #19
Philippines		#7, #11
Taiwan	#4, #8, #10, #14	#1, #3, #6, #9, #13, #15, #17, #18
Thailand	#2
Asia (country unknown)	#5

^aAll samples were identified to species level by two separate PCRs; a multiplex PCR [6] and the novel HDP2-PCR III described in this study. The numbers shown in bold correspond to samples that could not be differentiated by the HDP2-multiplex-PCR [22].