Brigitte Bartholomot

TL;DR: Long-term transmission of Echinococcus multilocularis and risk of zoonotic infection of south Gansu farmers may be related ultimately to a process of deforestation driven by agriculture and subsequent development of a peri-domestic cycle involving dogs.

TL;DR: Radical changes in the diagnosis and the management of alveolar echinococcosis have occurred during the last decade and have contributed to an improvement in the status of the patients affected by this very severe parasitic disease.

TL;DR: Non-surgical interventional procedures, mainly percutaneous biliary and/or centro-parasitic abscesses drainages, are currently a major aspect in the care of incurable AE patients and have largely contributed to the improvement of survival in this situation during the past 20 years.

TL;DR: Analysis of rodent species assemblages within quantified rural landscapes in central China and eastern France shows a significant association between host species for the pathogenic helminth Echinococcus multilocularis, with prevalences of human alveolar echinococcosis and with land area under shrubland or grassland, suggesting that at the regional scale landscape can affect human disease distribution through interaction with small mammal communities and their population dynamics.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper conducted a community survey in 2002 and 2003, using ultrasound and serology, to detect asymptomatic cases for assessing the true prevalence of human cystic echinococcosis (CE) and alveolar co-occurrence (AE) among rural communities in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR).