Increase in number of helminth species from Dutch red foxes over a 35-year period

Parasites and Vectors

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Franssen, Frits ^a   Nijsse, Rolf ^b   Mulder, Jaap ^c   Cremers, Herman ^d   Dam, Cecile ^a   Takumi, Katsuhisa ^a   Van Der Giessen, Joke ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Bureau Mulder natuurlijk Consultant for Animal Ecology   (Netherlands)

^d National Institute for Public Health and Environment ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Alaria; Biodiversity; Echinococcus; Helminth fauna; Molecular analysis; Red fox; Taenia; Toxocara

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANGIOSTRONGYLUS VASORUM; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; DNA SEQUENCE; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; FEMALE; HELMINTH; HELMINTHIASIS; INTESTINE PARASITE; MALE; MESOCESTOIDEA; MESOCESTOIDES LITTERATUS; MIXED INFECTION; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE PREVALENCE; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAENIA CRASSICEPS; TOXASCARIS LEONINA; TOXOCARA CANIS; TRICHURIS VULPIS; UNCINARIA STENOCEPHALA; VULPES VULPES; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOX; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; PARASITOLOGY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STOMACH JUICE; TIME;

ANIMALS; FOXES; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; HELMINTHIASIS, ANIMAL; HELMINTHS; NETHERLANDS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84898447140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17563305     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-3305-7-166     Document Type: Article

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