Spatial and temporal aspects of urban transmission of Echinococcus multilocularis

Parasitology

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 631-640

  Stieger, C ^a   Hegglin, D ^a   Mathis, A ^a   Deplazes, P ^a   Schwarzenbach, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Echinococcus multilocularis; Fox; Infection pressure; Rodents; Urban area

Indexed keywords

ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ARVICOLA TERRESTRIS; CESTODIASIS; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FOX; INFECTION RISK; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SWITZERLAND; URBAN AREA;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, HELMINTH; DOGS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES; FEMALE; FOXES; HOST-PARASITE RELATIONS; MALE; PREVALENCE; RODENTIA; SEASONS; SEX FACTORS; SWITZERLAND;

ANIMALIA; ARVICOLA; ARVICOLA TERRESTRIS; CANIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CESTODA; CLETHRIONOMYS; CLETHRIONOMYS GLAREOLUS; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; RODENTIA;

EID: 0036303897     PISSN: 00311820     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0031182002001749     Document Type: Article

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