Echinococcus multilocularis-adaptation of a worm egg isolation procedure coupled with a multiplex PCR assay to carry out large-scale screening of red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) in Norway

Parasitology Research

Volumn 104, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 509-514

  Davidson, Rebecca K ^a   Øines, Øivind ^a   Madslien, Knut ^a   Mathis, Alexander ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN VETERINARY INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FECES ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE SEQUENCE; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORWAY; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCREENING; WORM EGG; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; EVALUATION; FECES; FOX; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MASS SCREENING; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY;

CESTODA; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; TAENIIDAE; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

HELMINTH DNA;

ANIMALS; DNA, HELMINTH; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; FECES; FEMALE; FOXES; MALE; MASS SCREENING; NORWAY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 63849289216     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-008-1222-y     Document Type: Article

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