Yu Rong Yang

Landscape composition and spatial prediction of alveolar echinococcosis in southern ningxia, china. (2008)

Pleydell, David R J, Yang, Yu Rong, Danson, F Mark, Raoul, Francis, Craig, Philip S, McManus, Donald P, ...

BACKGROUND: Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) presents a serious public health challenge within China. Mass screening ultrasound surveys can detect pre-symptomatic AE, but targeting areas identified from...

Landscape composition and spatial prediction of alveolar echinococcosis in southern ningxia, china. (2008)

Pleydell, David R J, Yang, Yu Rong, Danson, F Mark, Raoul, Francis, Craig, Philip S, McManus, Donald P, ...

BACKGROUND: Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) presents a serious public health challenge within China. Mass screening ultrasound surveys can detect pre-symptomatic AE, but targeting areas identified from...

Community surveys and risk factor analysis of human alveolar and cystic echinococcasis in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China (2006)

Yang, Yu Rong, Sun,Tao, Li, Zhengzhi, Zhang, Jianzhong, Teng, Jing, Liu, Xongzhou, ...

Objective To determine the true community prevalence of human cystic (CE) and alveolar (AE) echinococcosis (hydatid disease) in a highly endemic region in Ningxia Hui, China, by detecting...

Community surveys and risk factor analysis of human alveolar and cystic echinococcasis in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China (2006)

Yang, Yu Rong, Sun,Tao, Li, Zhengzhi, Zhang, Jianzhong, Teng, Jing, Liu, Xongzhou, ...

Objective To determine the true community prevalence of human cystic (CE) and alveolar (AE) echinococcosis (hydatid disease) in a highly endemic region in Ningxia Hui, China, by detecting...

Unique Family Clustering of Human Echinococcosis cases in a Chinese Community (2006)

Yang, Yu Rong, Ellis, Magda, Sun, Tao, Li, Zhengzhi, Liu, Xongzhou, ...

We have identified a significant focus and unusual clustering of human cases of cystic echinococcosis (CE) and alveolar echinococcosis (AE) in the village of Nanwan, Xiji County, Ningxia Hui...

Simultaneous Alveolar and Cystic Echinococcosis of the Liver (2006)

Yang, Yu Rong, Liu, Xong Zhou, Vuitton, Dominique A., Bartholomot, Brigitte, Wang, Yun Hai, Ito, Akira, ...

Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) and cystic echinococcosis (CE), caused by infection with the larval stages of Echinococcus multilocularis and E. granulosus, respectively, are of major clinical...

A hospital-based retrospective survey of human cystic and alveolar echinococcosis in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, PR China (2006)

Yang, Yu Rong, Cheng, Li, Yang, Shu Kun, Pan, Xiao, Sun, Tao, Xiuping Li,, ...

A retrospective study of in-patient records for the period 1985–2001 collected from 11 hospitals in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), China revealed a total of 2216 cases of echinococcosis. The...

Landscape Composition and Spatial Prediction of Alveolar Echinococcosis in Southern Ningxia, China

Pleydell, David R. J., Yang, Yu Rong, Danson, F. Mark, Raoul, Francis, Craig, Philip S., McManus, Donald P., ...

In humans, larvae of the fox tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis typically infect the liver where metastasis, calcification and necrosis cause the zoonotic disease alveolar echinococcosis (AE)....

Echinococcus granulosus Infection and Options for Control of Cystic Echinococcosis in Tibetan Communities of Western Sichuan Province, China

Yang, Yu Rong, McManus, Donald P., Huang, Yan, Heath, David D.

Human cystic echinococcosis (CE) is highly endemic in Tibetan regions of Sichuan. As part of a control program for CE in Datangma district, Ganzi County, necropsy of strays and coproantigen-ELISA of...

Community surveys and risk factor analysis of human alveolar and cystic echinococcosis in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, China.

Yang, Yu Rong, Sun, Tao, Li, Zhengzhi, Zhang, Jianzhong, Teng, Jing, Liu, Xongzhou, ...

OBJECTIVE: To determine the true community prevalence of human cystic (CE) and alveolar (AE) echinococcosis (hydatid disease) in a highly endemic region in Ningxia Hui, China, by detecting...

Natural Infection of the Ground Squirrel (Spermophilus spp.) with Echinococcus granulosus in China

Yang, Yu Rong, Liu, Tianxi, Bai, Xueli, Boufana, Belgees, Craig, Philip S., Nakao, Minoru, ...

Echinococcus granulosus and E. multilocularis are important zoonotic pathogens that cause serious disease in humans. E. granulosus can be transmitted through sylvatic cycles, involving wild...

Human cases of simultaneous echinococcosis and tuberculosis - significance and extent in China

Yang, Yu Rong, Gray, Darren J, Ellis, Magda K, Yang, Shu Kun, Craig, Philip S, McManus, Donald P

During analysis of retrospective community survey data, we identified two patients from Xiji County, south Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region with simultaneous echinococcosis and tuberculosis (TB),...