A highly endemic area of Echinococcus multilocula is identified through a comparative re-assessment of prevalence in red fox (Vulpes vulpes), Alto Adige (Italy: 2019-2020)
Federica Obber, Roberto Celva, Graziana Da Rold, Karin Trevisiol, Silvia Ravagnan, Patrizia Danesi, Lucia Cenni, Chiara Rossi, Paola Bonato, Katia Capello, Heidi C. Hauffe, Alessandro Massolo, Rudi Cassini, Valentina Benvenuti, Andreas Agreiter, , Carlo Vittorio Citterio
The paper reassesses E. multilocularis prevalence in red foxes in Alto Adige using qPCR, finding higher true prevalence and better diagnostic performance compared to CMPCR.
PLoS ONE · May 5, 2022Peer-reviewedMolecular Biology