Environmental changes impacting Echinococcus transmission: Research to support predictive surveillance and control

Global Change Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 677-688

  Atkinson, Jo An M ^a   Gray, Darren J ^a,b   Clements, Archie C A ^a   Barnes, Tamsin S ^a   Mcmanus, Donald P ^b   Yang, Yu R ^b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b QIMR BERGHOFER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^c GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d NINGXIA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Climate change; Echinococcus transmission; Environmental change; Public health; Surveillance

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEFORESTATION; DEGRADATION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; GLOBAL CHANGE; GRASSLAND; HEALTH IMPACT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE; OVERGRAZING; PARASITISM; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESEARCH WORK; TEMPERATURE ANOMALY; URBANIZATION;

ANIMAL; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; POPULATION DYNAMICS; REVIEW; URBANIZATION; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; HUMANS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; URBANIZATION; ZOONOSES;

ANIMALIA; CESTODA; ECHINOCOCCUS; ECHINOCOCCUS GRANULOSUS; ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS;

EID: 84873133062     PISSN: 13541013     EISSN: 13652486     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.12088     Document Type: Review

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