First Report of Angiostrongylus cantonensis (Nematoda: Angiostrongylidae) Infections in Invasive Rodents from Five Islands of the Ogasawara Archipelago, Japan

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Tokiwa, Toshihiro ^a   Hashimoto, Takuma ^b   Yabe, Tatsuo ^c   Komatsu, Noriyuki ^d   Akao, Nobuaki ^a   Ohta, Nobuo ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (Japan)

^c Rat Control Consulting   (Japan)

^d Division of Research and Development   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; SMALL SUBUNIT RIBOSOMAL RNA;

ANGIOSTRONGYLIASIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COXI GENE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INVASIVE SPECIES; JAPAN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PULMONARY ARTERY; RAT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

ANGIOSTRONGYLUS CANTONENSIS; ANIMALS; DNA, HELMINTH; DNA, MITOCHONDRIAL; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; ENDEMIC DISEASES; GEOGRAPHY; HELMINTH PROTEINS; HOST-PARASITE INTERACTIONS; HUMANS; INTRODUCED SPECIES; JAPAN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PREVALENCE; PULMONARY ARTERY; RATS; RODENT DISEASES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; STRONGYLIDA INFECTIONS;

EID: 84881338715     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0070729     Document Type: Article

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