Monitoring of environmental contamination by Echinococcus multilocularis in an urban fringe forest park in Hokkaido, Japan

Environmental Health and Preventive Medicine

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 299-303

  Lagapa, Jose Trinipil G ^a   Oku, Yuzaburo ^b   Kaneko, Masami ^c   Ganzorig, Sumiya ^d   Ono, Takashi ^c   Nonaka, Nariaki ^b   Kobayashi, Fumio ^d   Kamiya, Masao ^a  

^a Department of Biosphere and Environmental Sciences   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d Forum on Environment and Animals   (Japan)

Author keywords

Echinococcus eggs; Environmental contamination; Forest park; Fox faeces

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; FECES; FOREST; INFECTION RISK; LIFE CYCLE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; TAENIIDAE;

EID: 77249148294     PISSN: 1342078X     EISSN: 13474715     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12199-009-0083-z     Document Type: Article

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