Pasture types and Echinococcus multilocularis, Tibetan communities.

Qian Wang (1) , Dominique A Vuitton (2, 3) , Yongfu Xiao (1) , Christine M Budke (4) , Maiza Campos-Ponce (5) , Peter M Schantz (6) , Francis Raoul (7) , Wen Yang (1) , Philip S Craig (8) , Patrick Giraudoux (7)

1 Sichuan Provincial Center for Diseases Control and Prevention
2 WHO Collaborating Center on Prevention and Treatment of Human Echinococcosis, SERF Unit
3 CEF2P / CARCINO - Carcinogénèse épithéliale : facteurs prédictifs et pronostiques - UFC (UR 3181)
4 Institute of Parasitology
5 FALW - Faculty of Earth and Life Sciences [Amsterdam]
6 Division of Parasitic Diseases, Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
7 LCE - Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249)
8 Biomedical Sciences Research Institute

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.

Mots clés: ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS; OCHOTONA CURZONIAE; PATURAGES

Mots clés: DENSITE POPULATION

Domaines: Ecologie, Environnement

Qian Wang, Dominique A Vuitton, Yongfu Xiao, Christine M Budke, Maiza Campos-Ponce, et al.. Pasture types and Echinococcus multilocularis, Tibetan communities.. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 2006, 12 (6), pp.1008-10. ⟨10.3201/eid1206.041229⟩. ⟨hal-00340060⟩