Back
Reinventing the Wheel of Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato Transmission to Humans.
Journal article

Reinventing the Wheel of Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato Transmission to Humans.

  • Tamarozzi F WHO Collaborating Centre for the Epidemiology, Detection, and Control of Cystic and Alveolar Echinococcosis (in Animals and Humans), Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy; European Reference Laboratory for Parasites, Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy.
  • Deplazes P Institute of Parasitology, Vetsuisse and Medical Faculty, University of Zurich, Switzerland.
  • Casulli A WHO Collaborating Centre for the Epidemiology, Detection, and Control of Cystic and Alveolar Echinococcosis (in Animals and Humans), Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy; European Reference Laboratory for Parasites, Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy. Electronic address: adriano.casulli@iss.it.
  • 2020-04-17
Published in:
  • Trends in parasitology. - 2020
human cystic echinococcosis
risk factors
transmission
Animals
Echinococcosis
Echinococcus granulosus
Humans
English Control of cystic echinococcosis (CE) relies on interrupting Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato transmission through interventions in dogs and livestock. However, primary prevention measures aimed at avoiding ingestion of Echinococcus eggs may help reduce the burden of human CE. CE is generally considered, to variable extents, to be foodborne, but there is little evidence on the actual contamination of matrices and sociocultural factors involved in parasite transmission. An overall appraisal of published literature suggests that environmental contamination, possibly through hand-to-mouth transmission, may be of primary importance. While in most endemic areas sufficient epidemiological information is available to start CE control programs, identifying the main sources of infection to humans would allow optimization of site-specific interventions while avoiding irrelevant health education messages.
Language
  • English
Open access status
closed
Identifiers
Persistent URL
https://folia.unifr.ch/global/documents/152454
Statistics
Document views: 16 File downloads: