A One Health systematic review of diagnostic tools for Echinococcus multilocularis surveillance: Towards equity in global detection.

ABSTRACT: Echinococcus multilocularis is a zoonotic cestode of canid definitive hosts that is emerging as a parasite of medical and veterinary concern in regions of North America, Europe and Asia. Infection with the metacestode stage (alveolar echinococcosis - AE) is life-threatening, especially for patients who reside in low resource countries and lack access to modern diagnostic tests and treatments. The overall objectives of this One Health review were to systematically describe the diagnostic tests currently employed in endemic countries to detect E. multilocularis in people, canids and the environment, and to report the test characteristics of new diagnostic techniques for population surveillance. In this systematic review of English and Chinese language databases, we identified 9

SUBMITTER: Schurer JM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7034026 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature