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Drivers of Echinococcus multilocularis Transmission in China: Small Mammal Diversity, Landscape or Climate?

BACKGROUND: Human alveolar echinococcocosis (AE) is a highly pathogenic zoonotic disease caused by the larval stage of the cestode E. multilocularis. Its life-cycle includes more than 40 species of small mammal intermediate hosts. Therefore, host biodiversity losses could be expected to alter transm...

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Autores principales: Giraudoux, Patrick, Raoul, Francis, Pleydell, David, Li, Tiaoying, Han, Xiuming, Qiu, Jiamin, Xie, Yan, Wang, Hu, Ito, Akira, Craig, Philip S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3591347/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23505582
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pntd.0002045