Population dynamics in echinococcosis and cysticercosis: comparison of the response of Echinococcus granulosus, Taenia hydatigena and T. ovis to control
- 1 October 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Parasitology
- Vol. 93 (2) , 357-369
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182000051520
Abstract
SUMMARY: A comparative study has been made of the progress in the control of ovine echinococcosis caused by Echinococcus granulosus and the ovine cysticercoses caused by Taenia hydatigena and T. ovis in New Zealand. The methods of control included an educational and a dog-dosing programme. In the Styx field trial, the Otago/Southland Surveillance Programme and the national control programme, E. granulosus declined towards extinction. In contrast, this same control effort transformed the cysticercoses from hyper-endemic to endemic status with focal epidemics. In this unstable state, the density-dependent constraint was negligible and superinfection occurred.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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