Article: Alveolar echinococcosis, Lithuania.(LETTERS)(Letter to the editor)

To the Editor: Alveolar echinococcosis (AE), a serious zoonosis caused by the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis, has been reported in neighboring countries of Lithuania in recent years (1-4), but no published epidemiologic information is available. The red fox (Yulpes vulpes), the main definitive host of E. multilocularis in Europe (1), and important intermediate rodent hosts (e.g. Arvicola terrestris, Microtus arvalis) are present in Lithuania (5), but to date they have not been investigated systematically. The helminth fauna of carnivores in Lithuania had been investigated in a study in 1976, but no record was made for E. multilocularis (6). Notably, E. multilocularis ...

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