Interactions between landscape changes and host communities can regulate Echinococcus multilocularis transmission

• Published in: Parasitology Vol. 127; no. S1; pp. S121 - S131
• Main Authors: GIRAUDOUX, P., CRAIG, P. S., DELATTRE, P., BAO, G., BARTHOLOMOT, B., HARRAGA, S., QUÉRÉ, J.-P., RAOUL, F., WANG, Y., SHI, D., VUITTON, D.-A.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.01.2003
• Subjects: Animals; China; China - epidemiology; Conservation of Natural Resources; Deforestation; Echinococcosis; Echinococcosis - blood; Echinococcosis - epidemiology; Echinococcosis - parasitology; Echinococcosis - transmission; Echinococcus; Echinococcus - isolation & purification; Ecology, environment; Ecosystem; France; France - epidemiology; Grasslands; Humans; Landscape ecology; landscape epidemiology; Life Sciences; Models, Biological; Prevalence; Rodentia; Rodentia - parasitology; Rodents; small mammals; transmission ecology; Zoonoses; Zoonoses - parasitology; Zoonoses - transmission; France; China; landscape epidemiology; transmission ecology; small mammals; Landscape ecology; deforestation

An area close to the Qinghai-Tibet plateau region and subject to intensive deforestation contains a large focus of human alveolar echinococcosis while sporadic human cases occur in the Doubs region of eastern France. The current review analyses and compares epidemiological and ecological results obt...