The Seasonal Cycle of Abundance of Echinococcus multilocularis in Naturally Infected Arctic Foxes

• Main Authors: Fay, Francis H., Rausch, Robert L.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 1964
• Subjects: Parasitology; Arctic; Lawrence Island; Alopex lagopus; St Lawrence Island; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/parasitologyfacpubs/596; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/parasitologyfacpubs/article/1606/viewcontent/Rausch_1964_PFICP_The_Seasonal_Cycle_of_Abundance_of_Echinococcus_multilocularis.pdf

In some preliminary work on the ecology of Echinococcus multilocularis (Rudolphi, 1801) on St. Lawrence Island, Alaska, Rausch and Schiller (1956. Parasitology, 46 (3 & 4): 395-419) noted that the percentage of arctic foxes, Alopex lagopus Linnaeus, harboring the adult cestodes seemed to vary an...