Fig. 5.

Phylogenetic relationships of the Vietnamese Taenia and other representative species in the world by analysis of nucleotides using MEGA 2.1 in group A including Taenia solium and group B including T. asiatica, T. saginata, and others including T. crassiceps (Kumar et al., 2001). TsoCN=T. solium China; TsoIND=T. solium India; TsoTL=T. solium Thailand; TsoINX=T. solium Indonesia; TsoTZ=T. solium Tanzania; TsoVN=T. solium Vietnam; TsoBR=T. solium Brazil; TsoMX=T. solium Mexico; TsoEQ=T. solium Ecuador; TsoCR=T. solium Cameroon; TasVN1=T. asiatica Vietnam; TspVN2,3=T. asiatica Vietnam; TasTW=T. asiatica Taiwan; TsaCN=T. saginata China; TspVN4,5,6=T. saginata Vietnam, and TcrUS=T. crassiceps America (reproduced from [8]).