Survey of public knowledge about Echinococcus multilocularis in four European countries: Need for proactive information

BMC Public Health

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Hegglin, Daniel ^a   Bontadina, Fabio ^b,c   Gloor, Sandra ^b   Romig, Thomas ^d   Deplazes, Peter ^a   Kern, Peter ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b Urban Ecology and Wildlife Research   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALVEOLAR ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ARTICLE; CZECH REPUBLIC; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EUROPE; FEMALE; FRANCE; GERMANY; HEALTH SURVEY; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; INFECTION RISK; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARASITE; RISK FACTOR; SWITZERLAND; ANIMAL; ANIMAL DISEASE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FOX; PRIMARY PREVENTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; ZOONOSIS;

ADULT; ANIMALS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; EUROPE; FEMALE; FOXES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PRIMARY PREVENTION; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; ZOONOSES;

EID: 48349084863     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-8-247     Document Type: Article

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