The first instance of a cat excreting Echinococcus multilocularis eggs in Japan

Parasitology International

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 519-520

  Nonaka, Nariaki ^a   Hirokawa, Haruki ^b   Inoue, Takashi ^a   Nakao, Ryo ^a   Ganzorig, Sumiya ^c   Kobayashi, Fumio ^c   Inagaki, Masakazu ^a   Egoshi, Kentaro ^a   Kamiya, Masao ^d   Oku, Yuzaburo ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Nirenoki Animal Hospital   (Japan)

^c Forum on Environment and Animals   (Japan)

^d RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cat; cox1; Echinococcus multilocularis; Egg; Spirometra

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DNA;

AMPLICON; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; EGG; FECES; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; JAPAN; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RODENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPIROMETRA; TAENIA;

ANIMALS; CATS; DNA, HELMINTH; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; FECES; FEMALE; JAPAN; OVUM; PARASITE EGG COUNT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; RODENTIA; SPIROMETRA; TAENIIDAE;

EID: 53049092880     PISSN: 13835769     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2008.07.001     Document Type: Article

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