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Tharheer Oluwashola Amuda1, Sayed Ajmal Qurishi1,2, Guo-Dong Dai1

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Animal Disease Control and Prevention/College of Veterinary Medicine, Lanzhou University/Gansu Province Research Center for Basic Disciplines of Pathogen Biology/Key Laboratory of Veterinary Parasitology of Gansu Province/Key Laboratory of Veterinary Etiological Biology and Key Laboratory of Ruminant Disease Prevention and Control (West), Ministry of Agricultural and Rural Affairs/National Para-reference Laboratory for Animal Echinococcosis/Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Lanzhou, 730046, China, caas.cn.

Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
|July 16, 2026
PubMed
Summary

This study reveals that Echinococcus granulosus sensu stricto (E. granulosus s.s.) in Afghanistan is part of a global network, with livestock movement driving its spread. Findings aid in controlling this major zoonotic disease.

Keywords:
AfghanistanE. granulosus s.s.cystic echinococcosislivestock movementmitochondrial DNAphylogeographytransboundary transmission

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