Interactions between landscape changes and host communities can regulate echinococcus multilocularis transmission

Giraudoux, P, Craig, PS, Delattre, P, Bao, G, Bartholomot, B, Harraga, S, Quéré, JP, Raoul, F, Wang, Y, Shi, DZ and Vuitton, DA 2003, 'Interactions between landscape changes and host communities can regulate echinococcus multilocularis transmission' , Parasitology, 127 (7) , S119.

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Abstract

An area close to the Qinghai-Tibet plateau region and subject to intensive deforestation contains a large focus of human alveolar echinococcosis while sporadic human cases occur in the Doubs region of eastern France. The current review analyses and compares epidemiological and ecological results obtained in both regions. Analysis of rodent species assemblages within quantified rural landscapes in central China and eastern France shows a significant association between host species for the pathogenic helminth Echinococcus multilocularis, with prevalences of human alveolar echinococcosis and with land area under shrubland or grassland. This suggests that at the regional scale landscape can affect human disease distribution through interaction with small mammal communities and their population dynamics. Lidicker's ROMPA hypothesis helps to explain this association and provides a novel explanation of how landscape changes may result in increased risk of a rodent-borne zoonotic disease.

Item Type:	Article
Themes:	Subjects / Themes > R Medicine > R Medicine (General) Health and Wellbeing
Schools:	Schools > School of Environment and Life Sciences Schools > School of Environment and Life Sciences > Ecosystems and Environment Research Centre
Journal or Publication Title:	Parasitology
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Refereed:	Yes
ISSN:	00311820
Depositing User:	H Kenna
Date Deposited:	20 Aug 2007 14:56
Last Modified:	16 Feb 2022 07:35
URI:	https://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/260

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