Statistics and sample design in epidemiological studies of Echinococcus multilocularis in fox populations

Acta Tropica

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 183-189

  Conraths, Franz J ^a   Staubach, Christoph ^a   Tackmann, Kirsten ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Echinococcus multilocularis; Epidemiology; Geographic Information System

Indexed keywords

CANID; EPIDEMIOLOGY; PARASITE PREVALENCE;

ACCURACY; AGE; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; FOX; GENETIC HETEROGENEITY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; PREVALENCE; RANDOMIZATION; SAMPLING; SEASONAL VARIATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; EPIDEMIOLOGIC RESEARCH DESIGN; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FOXES; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS;

EID: 0344643043     PISSN: 0001706X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0001-706X(02)00215-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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