Drivers of Echinococcus multilocularis transmission in China: small mammal diversity, landscape or climate?

• Main Authors: Patrick Giraudoux (Author), Francis Raoul (Author), David Pleydell (Author), Tiaoying Li (Author), Xiuming Han (Author), Jiamin Qiu (Author), Yan Xie (Author), Hu Wang (Author), Akira Ito (Author), Philip S Craig (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2013-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<h4>Background</h4>Human alveolar echinococcocosis (AE) is a highly pathogenic zoonotic disease caused by the larval stage of the cestode E. multilocularis. Its life-cycle includes more than 40 species of small mammal intermediate hosts. Therefore, host biodiversity losses could be expec...