Emerging Infectious Disease ISSN: 1080-6059

Human Alveolar Echinococcosis after Fox Population Increase, Switzerland

Alexander Schweiger*¹, Rudolf W. Ammann*, Daniel Candinas†, Pierre-Alain Clavien*, Johannes Eckert*, Bruno Gottstein†, Nerman Halkic‡, Beat Muellhaupt*, Bettina Mareike Prinz*, Juerg Reichen†, Philip E. Tarr‡, Paul R. Torgerson*, and Peter Deplazes*

Author affiliations: *University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; †University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland; ‡University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland;

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Actual data points with moving 5-year average for annual incidence of human alveolar echinococcosis in Switzerland (A) and annual number of foxes hunted per year in Switzerland (B), used as a fox population density marker.

Figure. Actual data points with moving 5-year average for annual incidence of human alveolar echinococcosis in Switzerland (A) and annual number of foxes hunted per year in Switzerland (B), used as a fox population density marker.

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¹This author submitted this article to the University of Zurich as part of his Doctor of Medicine postgraduate degree requirement.

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