Inappropriate feeding practice favors the transmission of Trichinella papuae from wild pigs to saltwater crocodiles in Papua New Guinea

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 127, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 245-251

  Pozio, Edoardo ^a   Owen, Ifor L ^b   Marucci, Gianluca ^a   La Rosa, Giuseppe ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b National Veterinary Laboratory Boroko   (Papua New Guinea)

Author keywords

Crocodylus porosus; Epidemiology; Meat; Papua New Guinea; PCR; Reptiles; Saltwater crocodile; Trichinella papuae; Wild pig

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; RIBOSOME DNA;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BICEPS BRACHII MUSCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; FOOD FREEZING; FOOD INTAKE; LARVA; MOUSE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RAT; RIVER; SWINE; TRICHINELLA; TRICHINOSIS;

CROCODYLUS NILOTICUS; CROCODYLUS POROSUS; SUS SCROFA; TRICHINELLA PAPUAE; TRICHINELLA ZIMBABWENSIS;

EID: 13844266000     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2004.09.029     Document Type: Article

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