Publications

investigations on a swiss area highly endemic for echinococcus multilocularis.	anecdotal information suggested that a focus of hyperendemicity may be present in a small area of the canton of fribourg in switzerland. therefore, the prevalence of e. multilocularis was assessed both in the fox and the rodent population over a two-season-period. a high prevalence ranging between 47% and 56% was consistently determined in the fox population. an arvicola terrestris population was infected at 39% in the first season of investigation and at 11% in the following season. a subsequen ...	1996	8688861
[infestation of water voles (arvicola terrestris) with metacestodes of echinococcus multilocularis in the canton freiburg (switzerland)].	the results of an investigation on echinococcus multilocularis-metacestodes in european water voles (arvicola terrestris) are shown. the investigation materials were 28 water voles captured in schermann-traps on a meadow in the canton of fribourg and subsequently maintained in laboratory cages. the animals were patho-anatomically and histo-pathologically examined, a part of them additionally with an e. multilocularis-specific direct immunofluorescence-assay and/or a polymerase-chain-reaction. ra ...	1997	9381111