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Distribution of Echinococcus multilocularis in Kazakhstan.
Shaikenov B.S. & Torgerson P.R. · 2002 · In Cestode Zoonoses: An Emergent and Global Problem (ed. Craig, P. S. & Pawlowski, Z.), Amsterdam, NATO Science Series, IOS Press, 299–305.
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Résumé
The situation regarding AE was recently re-assessed in Kazakhstan: an average of 20 new human cases are observed each year in the eastern part of the country; the larval stage was found in 18 species of rodents, including marmots, steppe marmot (Marmota bobac) and grey marmot (Marmota baibacina), and gerbils, red-tailed gerbil (Meriones libycus) and great gerbil (Rhomomys opimus), especially in the forest-steppe, steppe zones and river valleys, and the adult stage in 4 species of définitive hosts, foxes (Vulpes vulpes and V. corsac), domestic dog (Canis familiaris), especially hunters’ dogs, and wild cat (Felis lybica).