Red fox (Vulpes vulpes) cannibalistic behaviour and the prevalence of Trichinella britovi in NW Italian Alps

Parasitology Research

Volumn 97, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 431-435

  Remonti, Luigi ^a   Balestrieri, Alessandro ^a   Domenis, Lorenzo ^a   Banchi, Cristina ^a   Lo Valvo, Tatiana ^a   Robetto, Serena ^a   Orusa, Riccardo ^a  

^a CeRMAS National Reference Centre for Wild Animal Diseases   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CANNIBALISM; DIET; DIGESTION; FECES ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FOX; FRUIT; HAIR; ITALY; LARVA; NEMATODE; NONHUMAN; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STOMACH CONTENT; TRICHINELLA BRITOVI;

ANIMALS; CANNIBALISM; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, HORIZONTAL; ECOSYSTEM; FECES; FOXES; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; ITALY; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE STAGES; MUSCLES; MUSTELIDAE; PREVALENCE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STOMACH; TRICHINELLA; TRICHINOSIS;

ANIMALIA; MARTES AMERICANA; MARTES FOINA; MELES MELES; MUSTELIDAE; RODENTIA; TAXIDEA TAXUS; TAXIDIINAE; TRICHINELLA; TRICHINELLA BRITOVI; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 27744495760     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-005-1481-9     Document Type: Article

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