Emerging Echinococcus Shiquicus Infection of Asian Badgers in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau

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Proposed life cycle of Echinococcus shiquicus involving Asian badgers in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau, China. Study area location in the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau (left) and the life cycle (right) of E. shiquicus involves intermediate hosts (such as plateau pikas and plateau voles) and definitive hosts, namely Tibetan foxes and dogs in family Canidae and herein identified Asian badgers in family Mustelidae, from the Qinghai–Tibetan Plateau.