Public health

Helminthiasis

China

Hydatid cyst

Archaeology

Environmental health

Cyst

Veterinary medicine

Geography

Zoonotic disease

Echinococcus

Medicine

Echinococcus multilocularis

Zoonosis

Echinococcosis

Disease

Alveolar echinococcosis

Pathology

Cystic echinococcosis

Clinical Microbiology Reviews

Echinococcosis is a zoonosis caused by cestodes of the genus Echinococcus (family Taeniidae). This serious and near-cosmopolitan disease continues to be a significant public health issue, with western China being the area of highest endemicity for both the cystic (CE) and alveolar (AE) forms of echinococcosis.

Echinococcosis: Advances in the 21st Century