@article{Lichtenwalner_Adhikari_Kantar_Jenkins_Schurer_2014, title={ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS GENOTYPE G8 IN MAINE MOOSE (ALCES ALCES)}, volume={50}, url={https://alcesjournal.org/index.php/alces/article/view/127}, abstractNote={<p>During a 2012 survey of harvested moose (<span style="font-family: AdvTTf90d833a.I; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: AdvTTf90d833a.I; font-size: x-small;"><em>Alces alces</em>) </span></span><span style="font-family: AdvTT5843c571; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: AdvTT5843c571; font-size: x-small;">in Maine (USA), an incidental finding of hydatid cysts was found in 39% (21 of 54) of lung sets examined. Cytology of cyst contents <span style="font-family: AdvTT5843c571; font-size: x-small;">was consistent with </span></span></span><em><span style="font-family: AdvTTf90d833a.I; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: AdvTTf90d833a.I; font-size: x-small;">Echinococcus granulosus</span></span></em><span style="font-family: AdvTT5843c571; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: AdvTT5843c571; font-size: x-small;">. The G8 genotype was identified based on PCR and DNA sequencing of a 470 base pair region of the NADH dehydrogenase subunit 1 (NAD1) mitochondrial gene. The hydatid cysts were the northern, or cervid genotype and this is the first confirmed <span style="font-family: AdvTT5843c571; font-size: x-small;">report of </span></span></span><em><span style="font-family: AdvTTf90d833a.I; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: AdvTTf90d833a.I; font-size: x-small;">E. granulosus </span></span></em><span style="font-family: AdvTT5843c571; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: AdvTT5843c571; font-size: x-small;">in Maine moose. The Atlantic regions of the northern USA and Canada <span style="font-family: AdvTT5843c571; font-size: x-small;">were not previously thought to be endemic regions for </span></span></span><em><span style="font-family: AdvTTf90d833a.I; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: AdvTTf90d833a.I; font-size: x-small;">E. granulosus</span></span></em><span style="font-family: AdvTT5843c571; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: AdvTT5843c571; font-size: x-small;">. It is presumed that either domestic <span style="font-family: AdvTT5843c571; font-size: x-small;">dogs or eastern coyotes (</span></span></span><em><span style="font-family: AdvTTf90d833a.I; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: AdvTTf90d833a.I; font-size: x-small;">Canis latrans</span></span></em><span style="font-family: AdvTT5843c571; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: AdvTT5843c571; font-size: x-small;">) are the definitive host.</span></span></p>}, journal={Alces: A Journal Devoted to the Biology and Management of Moose}, author={Lichtenwalner, Anne and Adhikari, Nirajan and Kantar, Lee and Jenkins, Emily and Schurer, Janna}, year={2014}, month={Apr.}, pages={27–33} }