CHINESE JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY AND PARASITIC DISEASES ›› 2020, Vol. 38 ›› Issue (4): 502-507.doi: 10.12140/j.issn.1000-7423.2020.04.018

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Research advances on factors affecting distribution characteristics of different hosts of Echinococcus spp.

WEI Si-hui(), WU Wei-ping*()   

  1. Key Laboratory of Parasite and Vector Biology, Ministry of Health, Shanghai 200025, China
  • Received:2019-10-24 Online:2020-08-30 Published:2020-09-09
  • Contact: WU Wei-ping E-mail:307558135@qq.com;wuwp@nipd.chinacdc.cn

Abstract:

Echinococcosis is a parasitic zoonosis caused by hydatid cyst infection, which seriously affects human physical and mental health. The distributions of the definitive and intermediate hosts of Echinococcus spp. is highly related to social, biological and environmental factors. Therefore, it is of great significance in public health to study the factors affecting the distributions of definitive and intermediate hosts of Echinococcus spp., and thus provide basis for formulating control measures. In this paper, the social, biological and environmental factors affecting the distribution characteristics of definitive and intermediate hosts of Echinococcus spp. are reviewed.

Key words: Echinococcosis, Distribution characteristics, Definitive host, Intermediate host

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