Prevalence of Echinococcus Species in Wild Foxes and Stray Dogs in Qinghai Province, China.

Echinococcosis is a zoonotic parasitic disease that is highly endemic to the Qinghai province of China. Limited data are available on the prevalence of the causal pathogen, Echinococcus spp., in definitive hosts in this region.

The correlations between Th1 and Th2 cytokines in human alveolar echinococcosis.

Background: Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a zoonotic parasitic disease caused by Echinococcus multilocularis larval tapeworm infections in humans that severely impairs the health of affected patients in the northern hemisphere.

Methods: The expression levels of 20 cytokines associated with AE infection were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, and the correlations between these cytokines were analysed in the R programming language.

Results: Serum cytokine levels differed among individuals in both the AE patient and healthy control groups.