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Volume 28, Number 8—August 2022
Dispatch

Anthelmintic Baiting of Foxes against Echinococcus multilocularis in Small Public Area, Japan

Kohji Uraguchi1Comments to Author , Takao Irie12, Hirokazu Kouguchi1, Azusa Inamori1, Mariko Sashika1, Michito Shimozuru1, Toshio Tsubota1, and Kinpei Yagi13
Author affiliations: Hokkaido Institute of Public Health, Sapporo, Japan (K. Uraguchi, T. Irie, H. Kouguchi, K. Yagi); Hokkaido University, Sapporo (A. Inamori, M. Sashika, M. Shimozuru, T. Tsubota)

Main Article

Table

Echinococcus multilocularis egg–positive rate of fox fecal samples collected on Hokkaido University campus, Sapporo, Japan, June 2014–October 2018

Baiting phase Fecal sample collection period Implementation of baiting Total no. fecal samples No. egg-positive fecal samples Egg-positive rate of fecal samples, %
Pre-survey
 2014 Jun–Aug
Before bating
 58
 31
 53.4
Phase 1
 2014 Aug–Nov Baiting 31 0 0.0
2015 Jan–Jul Nonbaiting 43 2 4.7
2015 Aug–Oct Baiting 22 0 0.0
2016 Apr–Jul
Nonbaiting
 48
 1
 2.1
Phase 2 2016 Sep–2018 Oct Baiting 282 0 0.0

Main Article

1These authors contributed equally to this article.

2Current affiliation: University of Miyazaki, Miyazaki, Japan.

3Current affiliation: Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.

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