High endemicity of alveolar echinococcosis in Yili Prefecture, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, the People's Republic of China: Infection status in different ethnic communities and in small mammals.
Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a life-threatening disease in humans caused by the larval stage of Echinococcus multilocularis. The tapeworm is transmitted between small mammals and dogs/foxes in the Northern Hemisphere. In this study 286 AE cases were reported from eight counties and one city in Yi...
Main Authors: | Baoping Guo, Zhuangzhi Zhang, Yongzhong Guo, Gang Guo, Haiyan Wang, Jianjun Ma, Ronggui Chen, Xueting Zheng, Jianling Bao, Li He, Tian Wang, Wenjing Qi, Mengxiao Tian, Junwei Wang, Canlin Zhou, Patrick Giraudoux, Christopher G Marston, Donald P McManus, Wenbao Zhang, Jun Li |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Public Library of Science (PLoS)
2021-01-01
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Series: | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0008891 |
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