title: Canine gastrointestinal parasitic zoonoses in India.
abstract: Although well recognized and studied in developed countries, canine parasitic zoonoses pose a lowly prioritized public health problem in developing countries such as India, where conditions are conducive for transmission. A study of the most recent parasite survey determining prevalence and epidemiology of canine parasitic zoonoses among tea-growing communities of northeast India demonstrated the endemicity of the problem. This particular study serves as a model using conventional, as well as molecular parasitological, tools to provide novel insights into the role of dogs as mechanical transmitters of human parasites such as Ascaris and Trichuris, and discusses the risks dogs pose with regards to zoonotic transmission of hookworms and Giardia.
authors.affiliation: World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for the Molecular Epidemiology of Parasitic Infections, School of Veterinary and Biomedical Sciences, Murdoch University, South Street, Murdoch 6150, Australia. r.traub@murdoch.edu.au
authors.forename: Rebecca J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Traub
authors.forename: Ian D
authors.initials: ID
authors.lastname: Robertson
authors.forename: Peter J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: Irwin
authors.forename: Norbert
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mencke
authors.forename: R C A Andrew
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Thompson
mesh_terms: D000724:Ancylostomiasis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission; D000818:Animals; D004197:Disease Reservoirs / Q000662:veterinary; D004283:Dog Diseases / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission*; D004285:Dogs; D004443:Echinococcosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission; D005873:Giardiasis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D007194:India / Q000453:epidemiology; D007411:Intestinal Diseases, Parasitic / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission*; D014120:Toxocariasis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission; D015047:Zoonoses