Role of pet dogs and cats in the transmission of helminthic zoonoses in Europe, with a focus on echinococcosis and toxocarosis

Veterinary Parasitology

Volumn 182, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 41-53

  Deplazes, Peter ^a   van Knapen, Frans ^b   Schweiger, Alexander ^a   Overgaauw, Paul A M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Control; Diagnoses; Echinococcus granulosus; Echinococcus multilocularis; Epidemiology; Pets; Toxocara canis; Toxocara cati; Zoonoses

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAT; CONTINUING EDUCATION; DOG; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ECHINOCOCCUS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; EUROPE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HELMINTHIASIS; HUMAN; INFECTION PREVENTION; NONHUMAN; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; PET ANIMAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RECREATION; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARIASIS; URBAN AREA; VETERINARY MEDICINE; WILD ANIMAL; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CAT DISEASES; CATS; DOG DISEASES; DOGS; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; EUROPE; HUMANS; PETS; PREVALENCE; TOXOCARIASIS; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS; CESTODA; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; MURIDAE; NEMATODA; TOXOCARA; TOXOCARA CANIS; TOXOCARA CATI; VERMES;

EID: 80053194739     PISSN: 03044017     EISSN: 18732550     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.vetpar.2011.07.014     Document Type: Article

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