Pasture types and Echinococcus multilocularis, Tibetan communities. Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • Our study showed that open pastures had more small mammal burrows than fenced pastures in Tibetan pastoralist communities in 2003. This characteristic was linked to a higher prevalence of Echinococcus multilocularis in dogs and indicates that pasture type may affect E. multilocularis transmission.

published proceedings

  • Emerg Infect Dis

author list (cited authors)

  • Wang, Q., Vuitton, D. A., Xiao, Y., Budke, C. M., Campos-Ponce, M., Schantz, P. M., ... Giraudoux, P.

citation count

  • 31

complete list of authors

  • Wang, Qian||Vuitton, Dominique A||Xiao, Yongfu||Budke, Christine M||Campos-Ponce, Maiza||Schantz, Peter M||Raoul, Francis||Yang, Wen||Craig, Philip S||Giraudoux, Patrick

publication date

  • June 2006