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E. granulosus
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Dog (definitive host) |
- Feeding with raw viscera, being a farm, rural or stray dog or being untied or free to roam |
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- Being a young and/or male dog |
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- Dog owner's lack of knowledge about hydatid disease and the lack of deworming treatment in dogs plus the owners' ethnic origin (linked with poor health education and deprived living conditions) |
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E. granulosus
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Domestic livestock (intermediate hosts) |
- Increasing hosts' age, geographical location, meteorological conditions, female gender, host species and type of farming management |
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E. granulosus
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Wild life (intermediate hosts) |
- Hosts' age, female gender and hosts' densities |
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E. multilocularis
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Fox (definitive host) |
- Being a young and/or male fox |
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- Climatic conditions and geographic location (marked spatial distribution) |
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- Host population dynamics and interactions with intermediate hosts (rodents), frequently influenced by urbanization level |
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E. multilocularis
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Other canids (definitive host) |
- Feeding with raw viscera, being hunting dogs or free to roam and availability of rodents |
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E. multilocularis
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Rodents (intermediate hosts) |
- Increasing adult age |
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- Meteorological and geographical conditions |
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- Rodent's densities |
