title: Recent epidemiologic trends in alveolar echinococcosis prevalence in humans and animals in Hokkaido.
abstract: We investigated chronological and geographical changes of alveolar echinococcosis (AE) prevalence in 14 administrative districts of Hokkaido based on the data of our epizootiologic and seroepidemiologic surveys. The results suggest that the chronological transitions of the enzootic state of AE in Hokkaido markedly reflect those of human AE prevalence, and that new prevalence of human AE has been emerging from central and western Hokkaido.
authors.affiliation: Hokkaido Institute of Public Health, Sapporo, Japan.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kimura
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Furuya
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kawase
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sato
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamano
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Uraguchi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yagi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Sato
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004444:Echinococcosis, Hepatic / Q000453:epidemiology*; D005589:Foxes / Q000469:parasitology; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D015995:Prevalence