Incidence of Echinococcus granulosus in Domestic Dogs in Palestine as Revealed by Copro-PCR.

• Main Authors: Amer Al-Jawabreh (Author), Kamal Dumaidi (Author), Suheir Ereqat (Author), Abedelmajeed Nasereddin (Author), Hanan Al-Jawabreh (Author), Kifaya Azmi (Author), Nahed Al-Laham (Author), Ziad Abdeen (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Hydatidosis or echinococcosisis considered a neglected zoonotic disease despite its high burden in the livestock industry and the high risk of infection by humans in endemic areas. In a cross-sectional study we estimated the copro-Incidence and also genotyped Echinococcus granulosus isolates from do...