Parasitology, Harold W. Manter Laboratory of

 

Title

Research Note: First Record of Ancylostoma malayanum (Alessandrini, 1905) from Brown Bears (Ursus arctos L.)

Document Type

Article

Date of this Version

7-1-2006

Comments

Published in Comparative Parasitology, v. 73, no. 2 (2006): 282-284. Copyright 2006 by the Helminthological Society of Washington. Used by permission.

Abstract

This is the first report of Ancylostoma malayanum (Alessandrini, 1905), subgenus Ceylancylostoma (Lichtenfels, 1980) from wild brown bears Ursus arctos L. The bears were collected by shooting in Wassamu-Cho province (44 [degrees] 80 [minutes] 59 [seconds] N, 142 [degrees] 82 [minutes] 99 [seconds] E), Hokkaido, Japan, November, 2003.