Monitoring of Echinococcus multilocularis infection in red foxes in Shiretoko, Japan, by coproantigen detection

Parasitology

Volumn 117, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 193-200

  Nonaka, N ^a   Tsukada, H ^b   Abe, N ^a   Oku, Y ^a   Kamiya, M ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coproantigen; Diagnosis; Echinococcus multilocularis; Japan; Red fox; Vulpes vulpes

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DOG; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FOX; INFECTION CONTROL; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; FECES; FEMALE; FOXES; JAPAN; MALE; PARASITE EGG COUNT; PREVALENCE; TERRITORIALITY;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CESTODA; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; TAENIIDAE; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0031927568     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182098002844     Document Type: Article

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