

@article {3133,
	title = {Short report: {Echinococcus} multilocularis confirmed on {Kunashiri} {Island}, 15 kilometers from the eastern part of {Hokkaido}, {Japan}},
	journal = {The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene},
	volume = {72},
	number = {3},
	year = {2005},
	month = {mar},
	pages = {284{\textendash}288},
	abstract = {There are two foci of alveolar echinococcosis (AE) caused by Echinococcus multilocularis in Japan. The first focus is on Rebun Island where AE patients were found from 1937, and the second is in eastern Hokkaido where patients have been found since the 1960s. The origin of the second focus is unknown. To further investigate AE in eastern Hokkaido, wild rodents (Muridae) were captured and examined for infection on Kunashiri Island, which is located 15 km off the northeastern coast of Hokkaido. Metacestodes of E. multilocularis were isolated from two of 31 voles, all of which were identified to be Clethrionomys rufocanus. Mitochondrial DNA sequencing data of recovered cestodes showed total identity with the cestode reported from Hokkaido. These results suggest that E. multilocularis may have been introduced to Hokkaido from Kunashiri Island during or after 1965.},
	keywords = {Animals, Arvicolinae, Base Sequence, DNA, Echinococcus multilocularis, Helminth, Japan, Molecular Sequence Data, Nucleic Acid, Pacific Islands, Rodent Diseases, Sequence Alignment, Sequence Homology},
	issn = {0002-9637},
	author = {Satoh, Masao and Nakaya, Kazuhiro and Nakao, Minoru and Xiao, Ning and Yamasaki, Hiroshi and Sako, Yasuhito and Naitoh, Yukako and Kondo, Seiji and Kobayashi, Mari and Ohtaishi, Noriyuki and Ito, Akira}
}
