Volume 14, Number 1—January 2008
THEME ISSUE
International Polar Year
Dispatch
Spatial Distribution of Echinococcus multilocularis, Svalbard, Norway
Eva Fuglei*
, Audun Stien†, Nigel G. Yoccoz‡, Rolf A. Ims‡, Nina E. Eide†, Pål Prestrud§, Peter Deplazes¶, and Antti Oksanen#
, Audun Stien†, Nigel G. Yoccoz‡, Rolf A. Ims‡, Nina E. Eide†, Pål Prestrud§, Peter Deplazes¶, and Antti Oksanen#Table
Results of coproantigen ELISA tests of arctic fox feces for Echinococcus multilocularis*
| Area | Distance, km† | 2000 |
2004 |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| n | No. positive | Proportion positive | 95% CI | n | No. positive | Proportion positive | 95% CI | |||
| Grumant | 0 | 35 | 7 | 0.20 | 0.10–0.36 | 224 | 135 | 0.60 | 0.54–0.66 | |
| Bjørndalen | 2–6 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 0–0.23 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0–0.30 | |
| Nordenskiöld Land | 6–40 | 91 | 0 | 0 | 0–0.04 | 74 | 0 | 0 | 0–0.05 | |
| Distant | 110–130 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NA | 27 | 2 | 0.07 | 0.02–0.23 | |
*Samples were collected in 2000 and 2004 from Grumant to Lille Bjørndalen (Grumant), from the neighboring valley Bjørndalen (Bjørndalen), from an extended area on Nordenskiöld Land peninsula (Nordenskiöld Land); and from the Ny–Ålesund and Hornsund area (Distant). CI, confidence interval.
†Approximate distance from the Grumant area.
