Landscape composition and spatial prediction of alveolar echinococcosis in southern Ningxia, China.

• Main Authors: David R J Pleydell (Author), Yu Rong Yang (Author), F Mark Danson (Author), Francis Raoul (Author), Philip S Craig (Author), Donald P McManus (Author), Dominique A Vuitton (Author), Qian Wang (Author), Patrick Giraudoux (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) presents a serious public health challenge within China. Mass screening ultrasound surveys can detect pre-symptomatic AE, but targeting areas identified from hospital records is inefficient regarding AE. Prediction of undetected or emerging hotspots would increase detect...