Echinococcus multilocularis in Svalbard, Norway: Microsatellite genotyping to investigate the origin of a highly focal contamination

• Main Authors: Knapp, J, Staebler, S, Bart, J M, Stien, A, Yoccoz, N G, Drögemüller, C, Gottstein, B, Deplazes, P
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2012
• Subjects: Institute of Parasitology; 570 Life sciences; biology; 610 Medicine & health; 600 Technology; Arctic; Lawrence Island; Norway; Svalbard; Svalbard Archipelago; Archipelago; Arctic Fox; St Lawrence Island; Alaska; sibling vole
• Online Access: https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/73159/; https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/73159/1/Knapp_et_al.,_Infect_Genet_Evol_12_%282012%29.pdf; https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-73159; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2012.03.008

Echinococcus multilocularis is a threatening cestode involved in the human alveolar echinococcosis. The parasite, mainly described in temperate regions of the Northern hemisphere was described for the first time in 1999 in the High Arctic Svalbard archipelago, Norway. The origin of this contaminatio...