Long-term retrospective assessment of a transmission hotspot for human alveolar echinococcosis in mid-west China.

• Main Authors: Patrick Giraudoux (Author), YuMin Zhao (Author), Eve Afonso (Author), HongBin Yan (Author), Jenny Knapp (Author), Michael T Rogan (Author), DaZhong Shi (Author), WanZhong Jia (Author), Philip S Craig (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2019-08-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>Human alveolar echinococcosis caused by infection with Echinococcus multilocularis is one of the most potentially pathogenic helminthic zoonoses. Transmission occurs involving wildlife cycles typically between fox and small mammal intermediate hosts. In the late 1980s/...