Figure 1.
The life cycle of Echinococcus multilocularis.
Man is infected as an aberrant intermediate host.
Figure 2.
Global distribution of AE.
Table 1.
Countries believed to be endemic for E. multilocularis over at least part of their territory.
Table 2.
Population studies for AE in rural China.
Figure 3.
Flow chart illustrating the search methods and processing of information.
Table 3.
The relative numbers of CE∶AE cases in various studies from Turkey.
Table 4.
Published case report series from Russia.
Table 5.
Estimated annual numbers of new cases in endemic provinces of China.
Table 6.
Estimated annual incidence of AE in Asia, by country.
Table 7.
Estimated median annual numbers of cases from Eastern Europe.
Table 8.
Estimated annual numbers of cases of AE in Central and Western Europe.