Recent epidemiologic trends in alveolar echinococcosis prevalence in humans and animals in Hokkaido

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 117-120

  Kimura, Hiroo ^a   Furuya, Koji ^a   Kawase, Shiro ^a   Sato, Chiaki ^a   Yamano, Kimiaki ^a   Takahashi, Kenichi ^a   Uraguchi, Kohji ^a   Ito, Takuya ^a   Yagi, Kinpei ^a   Sato, Naoki ^b  

^a HOKKAIDO INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; EPIZOOTIOLOGY; HUMAN; JAPAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC; FOXES; HUMANS; JAPAN; PREVALENCE;

EID: 0032861857     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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