COMPOSITION AND INFECTION OF INTERMEDIATE AND DEFINITIVE HOSTS OF ECHINOCOCCUS MULTILOCULARIS (LEUCKART, 1858) IN BASIN OF LAKE BAIKAL (BURYATIA)

Abstract

Based the available data and our own researches materials on Echinococcus multilocularis infection of wild animals in the basin of Lake Baikal (Republic of Buryatia) are presented here. E. multilocularis circulated by the circuit: red fox, common wolf (definitive hosts) - rodents (intermediate hosts) - red fox, common wolf (definitive hosts). The range of intermediate hosts in wild fauna includes rodents of family: Muridae (brown rat), Сricetids (muskrat, northern red-backed vole, Mongolian gerbil), Squirrels (long-tailed ground squirrel).

Keywords

• echinococcus multilocularis
• echinococcus multilocularis
• alveolar echinococcosis
• buryatia
• rodents
• carnivores