Epizootilogical Consideration on Multilocular Echinococcosis in Eastern Hokkaido, Japan

Studies on Echinococcosis Xv : Secondary Multilocular Echinococcosis by Intrahepatic Inoculation

Studies on Echinococcosis : Ii. Echinococcosis in Japan

A case of cardiac multilocular echinococcosis in a gerbil.

Surveillance of avian influenza virus in migratory water birds in eastern Hokkaido, Japan.

The epidemiological information has obtained on avian influenza virus (AIV) in eastern Hokkaido, Japan, where AIV surveillance has not been performed. Cloacal or fecal samples obtained from migratory water birds were screened for AIV both by real-time reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction to detect the influenza A virus matrix (M) gene and by egg inoculation. Between 2007 and 2009, a ...

Prevalence and risk factor analysis of bovine hemoplasma infection by direct PCR in Eastern Hokkaido, Japan.

The prevalence and risk factors of 2 bovine hemoplasma species-Mycoplasma wenyonii (Mw) and "Candidatus Mycoplasma haemobos" (CMh)-were examined by direct PCR using whole blood samples collected from 343 cattle in Eastern Hokkaido, Japan. The sensitivity of the direct PCR assay was 10-fold higher than the standard PCR assay, detecting 5 copies of bovine hemoplasma DNA per reaction. An epidemiol...