Specific detection of Echinococcus spp. from the Tibetan fox (Vulpes ferrilata) and the red fox (V. vulpes) using copro-DNA PCR analysis

Parasitology Research

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1531-1539

  Jiang, Weibin ^a   Liu, Nan ^a   Zhang, Gaotian ^a   Renqing, Pengcuo ^b   Xie, Fei ^b   Li, Tiaoying ^c   Wang, Zhenghuan ^a   Wang, Xiaoming ^d  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Center of Disease Control of Shiqu County   (China)

^c Sichuan Center for Disease Control and Prevention   (China)

^d Shanghai Science and Technology Museum   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHINA; COI GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA DETERMINATION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ECHINOCOCCUS SHIQUICUS; FECES; FEMALE; FOX; GENE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MITOCHONDRION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SRY GENE; VULPES FERRILATA; VULPES VULPES; ZINC FINGER PROTEIN GENE;

ANIMALS; DNA, HELMINTH; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; FECES; FEMALE; FOXES; MALE; MULTIPLEX POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PARASITOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREVALENCE; TIBET;

CANIDAE; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ECHINOCOCCUS SHIQUICUS; VULPES; VULPES FERRILATA; VULPES VULPES;

EID: 84868215454     PISSN: 09320113     EISSN: 14321955     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00436-012-2993-8     Document Type: Article

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