Although alveolar echinococcosis is rarely diagnosed in humans and is not as widespread as cystic echinococcosis, it is also still a serious disease that not only has a significantly high fatality rate but also has the potential to become an emerging disease in many countries.
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Proper disposal of carcasses and offal after home slaughter is difficult in poor and remote communities and therefore dogs readily have access to offal from livestock, thus completing the parasite cycle of " Echinococcus granulosus " and putting communities at risk of cystic echinococcosis.
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In 2014 15, the WHO estimated that approximately 2 billion people were infected with soil-transmitted helminthiases, 56 million people with food-borne trematodiasis, 120 million with lymphatic filariasis, 37 million people with onchocerciasis, and 1 million people with echinococcosis.
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The three types of echinococcosis are cystic echinococcosis caused by " E . granulosus ", alveolar echinococcosis caused by " E . multilocularis ", and polycystic echinococcosis caused by " E . vogeli " or " E . oligarthrus ".
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The three types of echinococcosis are cystic echinococcosis caused by " E . granulosus ", alveolar echinococcosis caused by " E . multilocularis ", and polycystic echinococcosis caused by " E . vogeli " or " E . oligarthrus ".
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The three types of echinococcosis are cystic echinococcosis caused by " E . granulosus ", alveolar echinococcosis caused by " E . multilocularis ", and polycystic echinococcosis caused by " E . vogeli " or " E . oligarthrus ".
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The three types of echinococcosis are cystic echinococcosis caused by " E . granulosus ", alveolar echinococcosis caused by " E . multilocularis ", and polycystic echinococcosis caused by " E . vogeli " or " E . oligarthrus ".
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""'Echinococcus granulosus, " "'also called the "'hydatid worm "', "'hyper tape-worm "'or "'dog tapeworm "', is a cyclophyllid cestode that parasitizes the small intestine of canids as an adult, but which has important intermediate hosts such as livestock and humans, where it causes cystic echinococcosis, also known as hydatid disease.
