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Echinococcosis in pigs and intestinal infection with Echinococcus spp. in dogs in southwestern Lithuania.
Veterinary parasitology - 23 Mar 2009
Bruzinskaite R, Sarkūnas M, Torgerson P R, Mathis A, Deplazes P
Abstract excerpt
Cystic echinococcosis is a major emerging zoonosis in many Eastern European and Asian countries. Post slaughter examinations of 684 pig livers in Lithuania revealed significantly higher numbers of Echinococcus granulosus infections in animals from family farms (13.2%; 95% CI 10.7-16.2) as compare...
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