A model for the transmission of Echinococcus multilocularis in Hokkaido, Japan

Parasitology Research

Volumn 91, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 444-451

  Ishikawa, Hirofumi ^a   Ohga, Yukio ^a,b   Doi, Rikuo ^c  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HORIBA LTD   (Japan)

^c YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; FOX; GEOGRAPHY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; JAPAN; LIFE CYCLE; LONGEVITY; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MODEL; MURIDAE; NONHUMAN; PARASITOLOGY; PATHOGENICITY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASON; SEASONAL VARIATION; THEORETICAL MODEL; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; FEMALE; FOXES; GEOGRAPHY; HUMANS; JAPAN; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OVIPOSITION; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION GROWTH; PREVALENCE; SEASONS;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; MURIDAE;

EID: 0346733234     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-003-0989-0     Document Type: Article

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