Table 2 Regional classification in low, middle and high endemic areas for E. multilocularis (variable STATE EM) based on the expertise of epidemiologists of Czech Republic (CZ), France (FR), Germany (DE) and Switzerland (CH).
country | areas (regions) | classification |
|---|---|---|
CZ* | Central Bohemia (Central Bohemia), East Bohemia (East Bohemia, Region Pardubice, Moravian Highlands (northern part)), North Moravia (Region Olomouc, Maravian – Silesian), Prague (Prague) | low (N = 287) |
|  | North Bohemia (North-West Bohemia, Giant Mountains – Liberec), South Bohemia (South Bohemia, Moravian Highland (western part)), South Moravia (Southern Moravia, Region Zlin, Moravian Highlands (eastern part)) | middle (N = 213) |
| Â | West Bohemia (Pilsen Region, Spas of the Western Bohemia) | high (N = 41) |
FR | Mediterranean Area (Languedoc Roussillon, Provence-Alpes Côte-d'Azur), Nord (Nord Pas-de-Calais), Paris Area (Ile de France), South West (Aquitaire, Midi-Pyrénées, Limousin), West (Bretagne, Pays-de-la-Loire, Poitou-Charentes), West Paris Basin (Haute-Normandie, Basse Normandie, Centre) | low (N = 356) |
| Â | East Paris Basin (Picardie, Champagne-Ardennes, Bourgogne) | middle (N = 40) |
|  | East (Lorraine, Alsac, Franche-Comté), Rhône Alps (Rhône-Alpes, Auvergne) | high (N = 104) |
DE | Berlin, Brandenburg, Bremen, Hamburg, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt, Schleswig-Holstein | low (N = 125) |
| Â | Niedersachsen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Rheinland-Pfalz, Saarland, Thueringen | middle (N = 202) |
| Â | Baden-Wuerttemberg, Bayern, Hessen | high (N = 173) |
CH †| Highlands of Switzerland (Appenzell-Ausserrhoden, Appenzell- Innerrhoden, Graubuenden, Luzern, Nidwalden, Obwalden, St. Gallen, Uri, Zug, eastern part of Valais, highlands of Bern and Schwyz) | middle (N = 121) |
|  | Western Switzerland (cantons Gêneve, Jura, Neuchâtel, Vaud and western part of the cantons Fribourg and Valais), Mid-Western | high (N = 379) |
| Â | Switzerland (cantons Baselland, Baselstadt, Solothurn, western part of canton Aargau and lowlands of canton Bern) | Â |
| Â | Mid-Eastern Switzerland (cantons Schaffhausen, Schwyz, Turgau, Zuerich, eastern part of canton Aargau and northern part of canton Schwyz) | Â |