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The landscape epidemiology of echinococcoses
Echinococcoses are parasitic diseases of major public health importance globally. Human infection results in chronic disease with poor prognosis and serious medical, social and economic consequences for vulnerable populations. According to recent estimates, the geographical distribution of Echinococ...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4759770/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26895758 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-016-0109-x |
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author | Cadavid Restrepo, Angela M. Yang, Yu Rong McManus, Donald P. Gray, Darren J. Giraudoux, Patrick Barnes, Tamsin S. Williams, Gail M. Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. Hamm, Nicholas A. S. Clements, Archie C. A. |
author_facet | Cadavid Restrepo, Angela M. Yang, Yu Rong McManus, Donald P. Gray, Darren J. Giraudoux, Patrick Barnes, Tamsin S. Williams, Gail M. Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. Hamm, Nicholas A. S. Clements, Archie C. A. |
author_sort | Cadavid Restrepo, Angela M. |
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description | Echinococcoses are parasitic diseases of major public health importance globally. Human infection results in chronic disease with poor prognosis and serious medical, social and economic consequences for vulnerable populations. According to recent estimates, the geographical distribution of Echinococcus spp. infections is expanding and becoming an emerging and re-emerging problem in several regions of the world. Echinococcosis endemicity is geographically heterogeneous and over time it may be affected by global environmental change. Therefore, landscape epidemiology offers a unique opportunity to quantify and predict the ecological risk of infection at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Here, we review the most relevant environmental sources of spatial variation in human echinococcosis risk, and describe the potential applications of landscape epidemiological studies to characterise the current patterns of parasite transmission across natural and human-altered landscapes. We advocate future work promoting the use of this approach as a support tool for decision-making that facilitates the design, implementation and monitoring of spatially targeted interventions to reduce the burden of human echinococcoses in disease-endemic areas. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40249-016-0109-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-47597702016-02-20 The landscape epidemiology of echinococcoses Cadavid Restrepo, Angela M. Yang, Yu Rong McManus, Donald P. Gray, Darren J. Giraudoux, Patrick Barnes, Tamsin S. Williams, Gail M. Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. Hamm, Nicholas A. S. Clements, Archie C. A. Infect Dis Poverty Scoping Review Echinococcoses are parasitic diseases of major public health importance globally. Human infection results in chronic disease with poor prognosis and serious medical, social and economic consequences for vulnerable populations. According to recent estimates, the geographical distribution of Echinococcus spp. infections is expanding and becoming an emerging and re-emerging problem in several regions of the world. Echinococcosis endemicity is geographically heterogeneous and over time it may be affected by global environmental change. Therefore, landscape epidemiology offers a unique opportunity to quantify and predict the ecological risk of infection at multiple spatial and temporal scales. Here, we review the most relevant environmental sources of spatial variation in human echinococcosis risk, and describe the potential applications of landscape epidemiological studies to characterise the current patterns of parasite transmission across natural and human-altered landscapes. We advocate future work promoting the use of this approach as a support tool for decision-making that facilitates the design, implementation and monitoring of spatially targeted interventions to reduce the burden of human echinococcoses in disease-endemic areas. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s40249-016-0109-x) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2016-02-19 /pmc/articles/PMC4759770/ /pubmed/26895758 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-016-0109-x Text en © Cadavid Restrepo et al. 2016 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Scoping Review Cadavid Restrepo, Angela M. Yang, Yu Rong McManus, Donald P. Gray, Darren J. Giraudoux, Patrick Barnes, Tamsin S. Williams, Gail M. Soares Magalhães, Ricardo J. Hamm, Nicholas A. S. Clements, Archie C. A. The landscape epidemiology of echinococcoses |
title | The landscape epidemiology of echinococcoses |
title_full | The landscape epidemiology of echinococcoses |
title_fullStr | The landscape epidemiology of echinococcoses |
title_full_unstemmed | The landscape epidemiology of echinococcoses |
title_short | The landscape epidemiology of echinococcoses |
title_sort | landscape epidemiology of echinococcoses |
topic | Scoping Review |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4759770/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26895758 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-016-0109-x |
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