Dogs and Guinea worm eradication

Dogs and Guinea worm eradication

[...]all evidence suggests transmission is not occurring via common drinking water sources, but via a paratenic aquatic host that people and dogs are eating raw or only partly cooked.4 Previous laboratory studies have shown that dogs (and cats and monkeys) are good experimental hosts for Dracunculus...

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Veröffentlicht in:The Lancet infectious diseases 2016-11, Vol.16 (11), p.1225-1226
Hauptverfasser: Eberhard, Mark L, Ruiz-Tiben, Ernesto, Hopkins, Donald R
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
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Dogs
Drinking water
Infections
Infectious Disease
Infectious diseases
Intervention
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Zusammenfassung:[...]all evidence suggests transmission is not occurring via common drinking water sources, but via a paratenic aquatic host that people and dogs are eating raw or only partly cooked.4 Previous laboratory studies have shown that dogs (and cats and monkeys) are good experimental hosts for Dracunculus medinensis.5,6 Hence, the ease with which this infection was established in dogs is not surprising.
ISSN:1473-3099
1474-4457
DOI:10.1016/S1473-3099(16)30380-2