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Echinococcosis

"Echinococcosis" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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An infection caused by the infestation of the larval form of tapeworms of the genus Echinococcus. The liver, lungs, and kidney are the most common areas of infestation.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Echinococcosis" by people in this website by year, and whether "Echinococcosis" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 5 publications over 5 distinct years, with a maximum of 1 publications in 1996 and 2010 and 2012 and 2017 and 2021
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