0000000001156073
AUTHOR
David Pleydell
Identification of environmental risk factors for the presence of Echinococcus multilocularis
International audience; The tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis is dependent upon foxes and microtine rodents to complete its life cycle and is a parasite of public health importance causing the fatal zoonotic disease alveolar echinococcosis (AE). Concerns that AE could be in emergence in Europe have arisen from recent studies. In France, a monitoring survey led to the collection of 2813 georeferenced faecal samples of which 82 have been diagnosed positive for the presence of the parasite. A geographically weighted logistic regression was used to assess potential spatial variation in the effect of putative environmental risk variables. Landscape and climatic variables were expected to play…
Representing Echinococcus multilocularis gradients in space and time: fox data, models, and scale dependence
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Environmental risk factors for transmission and representing Echinococcus multilocularis gradients in space and time: fox data, models and scale dependence
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