Mapping the increasing risk of human alveolar echinococcosis in Limburg, the Netherlands

Epidemiology and Infection

Volumn 140, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 867-871

  Takumi, K ^a   Hegglin, D ^b   Deplazes, P ^b   Gottstein, B ^c   Teunis, P ^a   Van Der Giessen, J ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Modelling; parasitic disease epidemiology and control

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL PARASITOSIS; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOX; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; ILLNESS TRAJECTORY; INCUBATION TIME; INFECTION RATE; INFECTION RISK; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LUNG HYDATID CYST; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NETHERLANDS; NONHUMAN; PARASITE IDENTIFICATION; PARASITE TRANSMISSION; POPULATION DENSITY DEPENDENCE; PREDICTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; SWITZERLAND; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES, EMERGING; ECHINOCOCCOSIS, HEPATIC; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; FOXES; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NETHERLANDS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SWITZERLAND;

EID: 84859318065     PISSN: 09502688     EISSN: 14694409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0950268811001221     Document Type: Article

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