Dog Ownership and Risk for Alveolar Echinococcosis, Germany

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• Alternative Title:
  Emerg Infect Dis
• Personal Author:
  Schmidberger, Julian ; Uhlenbruck, Janne ; Schlingeloff, Patrycja ; Maksimov, Pavlo ; Conraths, Franz J. ; Mayer, Benjamin ; Kratzer, Wolfgang
• Description:
  Human alveolar echinococcosis is caused by the parasite Echinococcus multilocularis, and dog ownership has been identified as a risk factor. We sought to specify the factors of dog ownership underlying this risk by conducting a case-control study among dog owners in Germany. The analysis revealed an increased odds ratio of ≈7-fold for dog owners whose dogs roam unattended in fields, 13-fold for dog owners who feed their dogs organic waste daily, 4-fold for dog owners who take their dog to a veterinarian only in case of illness, and 10-fold for dog owners who have never been informed by a veterinarian about the risk for infection. The results highlight the risk for infection associated with various factors of dog ownership and the value of veterinarians informing owners about prevention.
• Subjects:
  Animals Case-Control Studies Dog Diseases Dogs Echinococcosis Humans Ownership Pets
• Source:
  Emerg Infect Dis. 2022; 28(8):1597-1605
• Pubmed ID:
  35850154
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC9328925
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  Germany
• Volume:
  28
• Issue:
  8
• Collection(s):
  Emerging Infectious Diseases
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:c5bb49582f0e55cdb11a688bfa66c5aef56a3aa13399cf86346cf2b92d31622c
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/120182/cdc_120182_DS1.pdf
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