Volume 7, Number 3—June 2001
Research
Is High Prevalence of Echinococcus multilocularis in Wild and Domestic Animals Associated with Disease Incidence in Humans?
Bruno Gottstein*
, Francis Saucy†, Peter Deplazes‡, Juerg Reichen*, Georges Demierre§, Andre Busato*, Christian Zuercher*, and Paul Pugin¶
, Francis Saucy†, Peter Deplazes‡, Juerg Reichen*, Georges Demierre§, Andre Busato*, Christian Zuercher*, and Paul Pugin¶Table 1
Prevalence of Echinococcus multilocularis in Arvicola terrestris and Microtus arvalis captured in spring 1993 and 1998
| No. of A. terrestris | No. positive by microscopy/immunochemistry | No. of M. arvalis | No. positive by microscopy/ immunohistochemistry | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | 28 | 11 | (39) | [21-57] | nta | - | - | - |
| 1994 | 44 | 5 | (11) | [2-20] | 20 | 2 | (10) | [3-23] |
| 1995 | 67 | 6 | (9) | [2-16] | 61 | 13 | (21) | [11-32] |
| 1996 | 49 | 10 | (20) | [9-21] | 55 | 9 | (16) | [7-26] |
| 1997 | 59 | 4 | (7) | [1-13] | 52 | 12 | (23) | [12-35] |
| 1998 |
46 |
4 |
(9) |
[1-17] |
32 |
5 |
(16) |
[3-28] |
| Totals | 293 | 40 | (14) | [1-18] | 220 | 41 | (19) | [13-24] |
ant = not trapped.
bpositivity is based on a primary microscopy lesion detection and subsequent confirmation of E. multilocularis by immunohistochemistry and PCR.
