Multiplex PCR system for identifying the carnivore origins of faeces for an epidemiological study on Echinococcus multilocularis in Hokkaido, Japan

Parasitology Research

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 75-83

  Nonaka, Nariaki ^a   Sano, Takafumi ^b   Inoue, Takashi ^b   Teresa Armua, Maria ^b   Fukui, Daisuke ^c   Katakura, Ken ^b   Oku, Yuzaburo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIYAZAKI   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Wildlife Conservation Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; PRIMER DNA;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARNIVORE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS REACTION; DOG; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; FECES ANALYSIS; FOX; GENE SEQUENCE; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACCOON; RODENT;

ANIMALS; CARNIVORA; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; DNA FINGERPRINTING; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; FECES; JAPAN; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; MUSTELINAE; NYCTEREUTES PROCYONOIDES; PROCYON; RODENTIA; TAENIIDAE;

EID: 71449097045     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-009-1629-0     Document Type: Article

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