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Interactions between landscape changes and host communities can regulate Echinococcus multilocularis transmission

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 March 2004

P. GIRAUDOUX ,
P. S. CRAIG ,
P. DELATTRE ,
G. BAO ,
B. BARTHOLOMOT ,
S. HARRAGA ,
J.-P. QUÉRÉ ,
F. RAOUL ,
Y. WANG  and
D. SHI
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P. GIRAUDOUX
Affiliation:
ISTE (EA 3184 MRT – UC INRA; EA 2276), Université de Franche-Comté 25030 Besançon Cedex, France
P. S. CRAIG
Affiliation:
Biosciences Research Institute & School of Environment & Life Sciences, University of Salford, M5 4WT, Salford, U.K.
P. DELATTRE
Affiliation:
UMR 1062, Centre de Biologie et Gestion Populations, CS0016 34988, Montferrier Cedex, France
G. BAO
Affiliation:
Department of Parasitology, Lanzhou Medical College, 85 Dun Gang Xi Road, 730000 Lanzhou, P.R. of China
B. BARTHOLOMOT
Affiliation:
ISTE (EA 3184 MRT – UC INRA; EA 2276), Université de Franche-Comté 25030 Besançon Cedex, France
S. HARRAGA
Affiliation:
ISTE (EA 3184 MRT – UC INRA; EA 2276), Université de Franche-Comté 25030 Besançon Cedex, France
J.-P. QUÉRÉ
Affiliation:
UMR 1062, Centre de Biologie et Gestion Populations, CS0016 34988, Montferrier Cedex, France
F. RAOUL
Affiliation:
ISTE (EA 3184 MRT – UC INRA; EA 2276), Université de Franche-Comté 25030 Besançon Cedex, France
Y. WANG
Affiliation:
Xinjiang Medical College, 1 Li Yu Shan Road, 830000 Urumqi, P.R. of China
D. SHI
Affiliation:
Department of Parasitology, Lanzhou Medical College, 85 Dun Gang Xi Road, 730000 Lanzhou, P.R. of China
D.-A. VUITTON
Affiliation:
ISTE (EA 3184 MRT – UC INRA; EA 2276), Université de Franche-Comté 25030 Besançon Cedex, France
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Abstract

An area close to the Qinghai-Tibet plateau region and subject to intensive deforestation contains a large focus of human alveolar echinococcosis while sporadic human cases occur in the Doubs region of eastern France. The current review analyses and compares epidemiological and ecological results obtained in both regions. Analysis of rodent species assemblages within quantified rural landscapes in central China and eastern France shows a significant association between host species for the pathogenic helminth Echinococcus multilocularis, with prevalences of human alveolar echinococcosis and with land area under shrubland or grassland. This suggests that at the regional scale landscape can affect human disease distribution through interaction with small mammal communities and their population dynamics. Lidicker's ROMPA hypothesis helps to explain this association and provides a novel explanation of how landscape changes may result in increased risk of a rodent-borne zoonotic disease.

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Landscape ecologylandscape epidemiologytransmission ecologysmall mammalsdeforestation

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Parasitology , Volume 127 , Issue S1 , October 2003 , pp. S121 - S131
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