Study of Human Cystic Echinococcosis in Hyderabad, Pakistan

Human cystic echinococcosis in Heilongjiang Province, China: a retrospective study

BACKGROUND Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is one of emerging zoonotic parasitic diseases throughout the world, having significant medical and economic importance in developing countries. The western and northwestern China is considered as CE endemic areas. In northeastern China's Heilongjiang Province, the increasing number of sporadic human CE cases has attracted more and more attention. The aims ...

Human cystic echinococcosis in Heilongjiang Province , China : A retrospective study 1 2 Running title : Cystic echinococcosis in humans in China

Human cystic echinococcosis in South Africa.

Cystic echinococcosis is recognised as causing considerable morbidity and even mortality in South Africa, but the epidemiology of the disease is to date unknown. From current evidence there are also concerns that co-infections with HIV and tuberculosis (TB) considerably increase CE-associated morbidity. The aim of this analysis was to characterise clinical features and disease burden of CE in S...

Seroepidemiology of human cystic echinococcosis in Basrah governorate

An antigen of high sensitivity and 97.5% specificity prepared from hydatid cyst fluid was used in an ELISA test for a sero-epidemiological survey in areas of Basra, Iraq. The calculated predictive values for positive and negative cases were 3.5% and 96.4% respectively.

Notes on human cases of cystic echinococcosis in Peru.

Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a high prevalent zoonosis in the central and southern Peruvian Andes. Serum samples (n50)from patients presenting presumptive clinical and radiological diagnosis of CE (group 1), were tested for antibodies against Echinococcus granulosus metacestode using Arc-5 double diffusion assay (DD5), immunoelectrophoresis (IEF), and immunoelectrotransfer blot (EITB) techniqu...