Geographic distribution and prevalence of human echinococcosis at the township level in the Tibet Autonomous Region

• Main Authors: Liying Wang (Author), Gongsang Quzhen (Author), Min Qin (Author), Zehang Liu (Author), Huasheng Pang (Author), Roger Frutos (Author), Laurent Gavotte (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Echinococcosis, a zoonotic parasitic disease, is caused by larval stages of cestodes in the Echinococcus genus. Echinococcosis is highly prevalent in ten provinces/autonomous regions of western and northern China. In 2016, an epidemiological survey of Tibet Autonomous Region (TAR...