A red fox, Vulpes vulpes shrencki, infected with Echinococcus multilocularis was introduced from Hokkaido Island, where E. multilocularis is endemic, to Aomori, northern part of the mainland Japan.
Department of Parasitology, Hirosaki University School of Medicine, Hirosaki 036-8562, Japan. hkamiya@cc.hirosaki-u.ac.jp
Haruo
H
Kamiya
Takashi
T
Inaba
Hiroshi
H
Sato
Arihiro
A
Osanai
D000818:Animals; D004446:Echinococcus / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005589:Foxes / Q000469:parasitology*; D007564:Japan