Preliminary study of the role of red foxes in Echinococcus multilocularis transmission in the urban area of Sapporo, Japan

Parasitology

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 423-428

  Tsukada, H ^a   Morishima, Y ^a   Nonaka, N ^a   Oku, Y ^a   Kamiya, M ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Coproantigen detection assay; Echinococcus multilocularis; Epidemiology; Urban area; Vulpes vulpes; Zoonosis

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FOX; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC; ECHINOCOCCUS; FECES; FOXES; JAPAN; PARASITE EGG COUNT; RISK FACTORS; RODENTIA; URBAN HEALTH; ZOONOSES;

ARVICOLINAE; CANIDAE; CESTODA; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; RODENTIA; TAENIIDAE; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 0034072487     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0031182099005582     Document Type: Article

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