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Using the genetics of Echinococcus multilocularis to trace the history of expansion from an endemic area.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases - 1 Mar 2014
Umhang G, Knapp J, Hormaz V, Raoul F, Boué F
Abstract excerpt
Alveolar echinococcosis, caused by the cestode Echinococcus multilocularis, is the most serious parasitic disease for humans in Europe, with a sylvatic life cycle generally between small rodents and red foxes. General expansion of the range of E. multilocularis has been observed across Europe over the last 15years. In France, a westward spread of the known endemic areas of the parasite was described recently. For...
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