Serosurvey for Trichinella in polar bears (Ursus maritimus) from Svalbard and the Barents Sea

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 172, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 256-263

  Åsbakk, Kjetil ^a   Aars, Jon ^b   Derocher, Andrew E ^c   Wiig, Øystein ^d   Oksanen, Antti ^e   Born, Erik W ^f   Dietz, Rune ^g   Sonne, Christian ^g   Godfroid, Jacques ^a   Kapel, Christian M O ^h  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN POLAR INSTITUTE   (Norway)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^e NATL VET AND FOOD RES INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^f GREENLAND INSTITUTE OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Greenland)

^g NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Denmark)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Barents Sea; ELISA; Odobenus rosmarus; Polar bear; Svalbard; Toxoplasma gondii; Trichinella; Ursus maritimus; Walrus

Indexed keywords

MATERNAL ANTIBODY; PARASITE ANTIBODY; SEA WATER;

ANTIBODY DETECTION; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHIC PATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; POLAR BEAR; SEROPREVALENCE; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRICHINELLA; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, HELMINTH; ANTIBODIES, PROTOZOAN; FEMALE; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; MALE; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEROEPIDEMIOLOGIC STUDIES; SVALBARD; TOXOPLASMA; TOXOPLASMOSIS; TRICHINELLA; TRICHINELLOSIS; URSIDAE;

ANIMALIA; ODOBENIDAE; ODOBENUS ROSMARUS; TOXOPLASMA GONDII; TRICHINELLA; URSUS MARITIMUS;

EID: 77956009909     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2010.05.018     Document Type: Article

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