Incidence of Echinococcus granulosus in Domestic Dogs in Palestine as Revealed by Copro-PCR.

• Published in: PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: Amer Al-Jawabreh, Kamal Dumaidi, Suheir Ereqat, Abedelmajeed Nasereddin, Hanan Al-Jawabreh, Kifaya Azmi, Nahed Al-Laham, Ziad Abdeen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015
• Subjects: Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Public aspects of medicine; RA1-1270; Arctic; Hebron
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0003934; https://doaj.org/article/1447b873c51f4916bc435ae86e12273a

Hydatidosis or echinococcosisis considered a neglected zoonotic disease despite its high burden in the livestock industry and the high risk of infection by humans in endemic areas. In a cross-sectional study we estimated the copro-Incidence and also genotyped Echinococcus granulosus isolates from do...