Assessment of a 10-year dog deworming programme on the transmission of Echinococcus multilocularis in Tibetan communities in Sichuan Province, China

• Main Authors: Qian, Wang, Bo, Zhong, Wenjie, Yu, Guangjia, Zhang, Budke, Christine, Sha, Liao, Wei, He, Fan, Chen, Kejun, Xu, Fei, Xie, Zeli, Danba, Qi, Wang, Liu, Yang, Yan, Huang, Ruirui, Li, Renxing, Yao, Giraudoux, Patrick, Craig, Philip
• Other Authors: Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249) (LCE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté COMUE (UBFC)
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: HAL CCSD 2020
• Subjects: [SDV.EE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Ecology; environment; [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology; Lawrence Island; St Lawrence Island; Alaska
• Online Access: https://hal.science/hal-03029703; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijpara.2020.08.010

International audience Human alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is considered a neglected zoonotic disease by the World Health Organization (WHO). The causative pathogen, Echinococcus multilocularis, lives as an adult tapeworm in the intestinal tract of canines. AE was identified as an emerging public hea...