Echinococcus multilocularis on Svalbard: introduction of an intermediate host has enabled the local life-cycle

The taeniid tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis is here reported for the first time at the Svalbard Archipelago in the Norwegian Arctic. This new finding is interesting because the establishment of E. multilocularis is due to a recent anthropogenic introduction of its intermediate host – the siblin...

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