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Pasture types and Echinococcus multilocularis, Tibetan communities

Emerging Infectious Diseases (2006) 12(6) 1008-1010
DOI: 10.3201/eid1206.041229
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Our study showed that open pastures had more small mammal burrows than fenced pastures in Tibetan pastoralist communities in 2003. This characteristic was linked to a higher prevalence of Echinococcus multilocularis in dogs and indicates that pasture type may affect E. multilocularis transmission.

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Wang, Q., Vuitton, D. A., Xiao, Y., Budke, C. M., Campos-Ponce, M., Schantz, P. M., … Giraudoux, P. (2006). Pasture types and Echinococcus multilocularis, Tibetan communities. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 12(6), 1008–1010. https://doi.org/10.3201/eid1206.041229

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