Combined eco-epidemiological and molecular biology approaches to assess Echinococcus granulosus transmission to humans in Mauritania: Occurence of the 'camel' strain and human cystic echinococcosis

Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 383-386

  Bardonnet, Karine ^a,d   Piarroux, R ^a   Dia, L ^b   Schneegans, F ^b   Beurdeley, A ^c   Godot, V ^a   Vuitton, D A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE FRANCHE COMTÉ   (France)

^b Natl Ctr for Vet Studies/Research   (Mauritania)

^c National Hospital   (Mauritania)

^d UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL JEAN MINJOZ   (France)

Author keywords

Animal reservoir; Camel strain; Echinococcosis; Echinococcus granulosus; Genotyping; Humans; Mauritania

Indexed keywords

DNA;

ARTICLE; CAMEL; CATTLE; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA SEQUENCE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECOSYSTEM; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAURITANIA; MICROBIAL CONTAMINATION; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR TYPING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAMPLING; SLAUGHTERHOUSE; ZOONOSIS; ANIMAL; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DOMESTIC ANIMAL; ECHINOCOCCUS; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; LIVER HYDATID CYST; LUNG HYDATID CYST; METHODOLOGY; PARASITOLOGY; SHEEP;

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS; CAMELIDAE; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CESTODA; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, DOMESTIC; CAMELS; CATTLE; DISEASE RESERVOIRS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, PULMONARY; ECHINOCOCCUS; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MAURITANIA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHEEP; ZOONOSES;

EID: 0036653406     PISSN: 00359203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(02)90369-X     Document Type: Article

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