Potential Risk Factors Associated with Human Cystic Echinococcosis: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.

• Main Authors: Alessia Possenti (Author), Raúl Manzano-Román (Author), Carlos Sánchez-Ovejero (Author), Belgees Boufana (Author), Giuseppe La Torre (Author), Mar Siles-Lucas (Author), Adriano Casulli (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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BACKGROUND:Scientific literature on cystic echinococcosis (CE) reporting data on risk factors is limited and to the best of our knowledge, no global evaluation of human CE risk factors has to date been performed. This systematic review (SR) summarizes available data on statistically relevant potenti...