Genetic-diversity of the cestode Echinococcus multilocularis in red foxes at a continental scale in Europe

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Knapp, Jenny ^a,b   Bart, Jean Mathieu ^b   Giraudoux, Patrick ^b   Glowatzki, Marie Louise ^a   Breyer, Isabelle ^a   Raoul, Francis ^b   Deplazes, Peter ^c   Duscher, Georg ^d   Martinek, Karel ^e   Dubinsky, Pavol ^f   Guislain, Marie Hélène ^g   Cliquet, Florence ^h   Romig, Thomas ⁱ   Malczewski, Andrzej ^j   Gottstein, Bruno ^a   Piarroux, Renaud ^k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WEST BOHEMIA   (Czech Republic)

^f PARASITOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Slovakia)

^g 2C2A CERFE ^*  (France)

^h Healthy Pigs Production and Experimentation Section   (France)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^j W STEFA SKI INSTITUTE OF PARASITOLOGY   (Poland)

^k TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; EUROPE; FOX; GENE CLUSTER; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MICROSATELLITE MARKER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; CLASSIFICATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; GENETICS; GEOGRAPHY; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY;

MICROSATELLITE DNA;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; EUROPE; FOXES; GENETIC VARIATION; GEOGRAPHY; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; MOLECULAR EPIDEMIOLOGY;

EID: 68349118146     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000452     Document Type: Article

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