TY - JOUR AU - Wang, Qian AU - Yu, Wen-Jie AU - Zhong, Bo AU - Shang, Jing-Ye AU - Huang, Liang AU - Mastin, Alexander AU - Renqingpengcuo AU - Huang, Yan AU - Zhang, Guang-Jia AU - He, Wei AU - Giraudoux, Patrick AU - Wu, Wei-Ping AU - Craig, Philip S. PY - 2016 DA - 2016/07/05 TI - Seasonal pattern of Echinococcus re-infection in owned dogs in Tibetan communities of Sichuan, China and its implications for control JO - Infectious Diseases of Poverty SP - 60 VL - 5 IS - 1 AB - Human cystic echinococcosis (CE) and alveolar echinococcosis (AE) are highly endemic in Tibetan communities of Sichuan Province. Previous research in the region indicated that domestic dog was the major source of human infection, and observations indicated that domestic dog could have more access to intermediate hosts of Echinococcus spp.: both domestic livestock (CE) viscera and small mammals (AE), in early winter and again in spring. We hypothesized that there would therefore be a significant increase in the risk of canine infection with Echinococcus spp. in these two seasons and conducted a reinfection study to investigate this further. SN - 2049-9957 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40249-016-0155-4 DO - 10.1186/s40249-016-0155-4 ID - Wang2016 ER -