Pasture Types and Echinococcus multilocularis, Tibetan Communities

Abstract

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.

Keywords

• Echinococcus multilocularis
• pasture type
• pastoralist communities
• mammals
• alveolar echinococcosis
• dispatch