The global burden of alveolar echinococcosis

PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Torgerson, Paul R ^a,b   Keller, Krista ^a   Magnotta, Mellissa ^a   Ragland, Natalie ^a  

^a ROSS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Saint Kitts and Nevis)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; CESTODE LIFE CYCLE STAGE; CHINA; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ETHNICITY; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH HAZARD; HOST PARASITE INTERACTION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INFECTION CONTROL; LIFE EXPECTANCY; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POPULATION RISK; POPULATION SIZE; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOCHASTIC MODEL; FEMALE; HEALTH; LIVER HYDATID CYST; MALE; PARASITOLOGY;

ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC; FEMALE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 77956989222     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0000722     Document Type: Review

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