Field evaluation of an intravital diagnostic test of Echinococcus multilocularis infection in red foxes

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 128, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 65-71

  Reiterova K ^a   Miterpakova M ^a   Turcekova L ^a   Antolova D ^a   Dubinsky P ^a  

^a PARASITOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

Cestoda; Coproantigen ELISA; Diagnosis; Echinococcus multilocularis; Nested PCR; Red fox; Sedimentation and counting technique

Indexed keywords

PARASITE ANTIGEN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BODY BURDEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; EGG; ENVIRONMENT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EVALUATION; EXAMINATION; FECES; FOX; HEALTH SURVEY; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; NONHUMAN; OPTICAL DENSITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PROTECTION; SAMPLE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SLOVAKIA; SMALL INTESTINE; URBAN AREA; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALIA; CANIDAE; CESTODA; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; VERMES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 13944263552     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2004.09.032     Document Type: Article

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