The Present Situation of Alveolar and Cystic Echinococcosis in Europe
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(pets, farm cats, etc) and, therefore, the infection risk is usually unknown. Other wildlife species are numerically of no importance as final hosts in Europe: the raccoon dog (Nyctereutes procyonoides), an accidentally introduced caniid from East Asia was recently confirmed as a natural host of E. multilocularis in Germany. The wolf (Canis lupus), lynx (Lynx spp) and wild cat (Felis sylvestris) are very rare, while jackals (Canis aureus) could be of regional importance in southeastern Europe, but data from that area are not available. The first European record of the arctic fox (Alopex lagopus) as a host of E. multilocularis in Europe came recently from the arctic islands of Svalbard where an introduced vole, Microtus rossiaemeridionalis, acts as an intermediate host (Henttonen et al, 2001).
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