Source attribution of human echinococcosis: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Paul Robert TorgersonLucy J RobertsonHeidi L EnemarkJunwei FoehrJoke W B van der GiessenChristian M O KapelIvana KlunChiara Trevisan

Published in: PLoS neglected tropical diseases (2020)

The results support the hypothesis that dog contact and drinking contaminated water are major pathways of transmission of both CE and AE. For contaminated food, the results are less consistent, but suggest that it is an important transmission pathway and provide better evidence than expert elicitations as previously used.

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heavy metals
drinking water
endothelial cells
induced pluripotent stem cells
risk assessment
clinical practice
human health