A 10-year wildlife survey of 15 species of Canadian carnivores identifies new hosts or geographic locations for Trichinella genotypes T2, T4, T5, and T6

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 168, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 78-83

  Gajadhar, Alvin A ^a   Forbes, Lorry B ^a  

^a Centre for Food Borne and Animal Parasitology   (Canada)

Author keywords

Canada; Carnivores; Survey; Trichinella murrelli; Trichinella nativa; Trichinella pseudospiralis; Wildlife

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEAR; CANADA; CARNIVORE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COYOTE; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; LARVA; MOUSE; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE PREVALENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PUMA; SEAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SPECIES IDENTIFICATION; TRICHINELLA; TRICHINELLA MURRELLI; TRICHINELLA PSEUDOSPIRALIS; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CANADA; CARNIVORA; GENOTYPE; GEOGRAPHY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; TRICHINELLA; TRICHINELLOSIS;

ANIMALIA; CANIS LATRANS; ODOBENIDAE; SUIDAE; TRICHINELLA; TRICHINELLA MURRELLI; TRICHINELLA NATIVA; TRICHINELLA PSEUDOSPIRALIS; TRICHINELLA SPIRALIS; URSUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 75749136851     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2009.10.012     Document Type: Article

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