A new intermediate host for Echinococcus multilocularis: The southern red-backed vole (Myodes gapperi) in urban landscape in Calgary, Canada

Parasitology International

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 355-357

  Liccioli, Stefano ^a   Duignan, Pádraig J ^a,b   Lejeune, Manigandan ^b   Deunk, Joanna ^a   Majid, Sultana ^a   Massolo, Alessandro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

Author keywords

Echinococcus multilocularis; Intermediate host; Myodes gapperi; Southern red backed vole

Indexed keywords

DNA; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE;

ABDOMINAL MASS; AMPLICON; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CANADA; CARCASS; CESTODE LIFE CYCLE STAGE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DNA EXTRACTION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; EOSINOPHILIA; FEMALE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; INTERMEDIATE HOST; LIVER CYST; LIVER NODULE; MYODES GAPPERI; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN AREA; VOLE; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; CANADA; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; FEMALE; LIVER; NADH DEHYDROGENASE; PANCREAS; SPLEEN; ZOONOSES;

CANIDAE; CESTODA; CLETHRIONOMYS GAPPERI; CLETHRIONOMYS RUTILUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; LAGOMORPHA; LEMMUS; LEMMUS SIBIRICUS; MICROTUS; MICROTUS OECONOMUS; MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS; MURIDAE; PEROMYSCUS MANICULATUS; RODENTIA; RUTILUS;

EID: 84877048623     PISSN: 13835769     EISSN: 18730329     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.parint.2013.03.007     Document Type: Article

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