Detection of Echinococcus multilocularis eggs by centrifugal flotation technique: Preliminary survey of soil left in the ferryboats commuting between Hokkaido Island, where E. multilocularis is endemic, and mainland Japan

Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 118-119

  Matsudo, Kayoko ^b   Inaba, Takashi ^a   Kamiya, Haruo ^b  

^a HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HIROSAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CENTRIFUGATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; FLOTATION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; JAPAN; MOTOR VEHICLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PREVALENCE; SOIL ANALYSIS; SOIL POLLUTION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CENTRIFUGATION; ECHINOCOCCUS; FOXES; JAPAN; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SOIL;

EID: 0141630342     PISSN: 13446304     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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