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Diagnosis, treatment, and management of echinococcosis.
Echinococcosis (hydatid disease) is caused by the larvae of dog and fox tapeworms (cestodes) of the genusEchinococcus (family Taeniidae).This zoonosis is characterised by long term growth of metacestode (hydatid) cysts in humans and mammalian intermediate hosts. The two major species that infect humans are E granulosus and E multilocularis, which cause cystic echinococcosis (CE) and alveolar ec...
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Ten patients with pulmonary hydatid disease diagnosed on the basis of a chest radiograph and a positive response to the indirect haemagglutination test for hydatid disease were treated with albendazole 10 mg/kg/day for eight weeks. None of the 10 patients showed any radiological or serological improvement with this treatment regimen. Albendazole in these doses appears to have little role in the...
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Hm~~rn E C H M O ~ S I S IS PRODUCED and bronchial tubes, etc. Pvogenic infecby the larval or hydatid state of the tions, tuberculosis and neoplasms may deechinococcus granul0sis.t It corresponds to velop on the walls of the cavities containan intermediate phase of the parasite that ing hydatids or in the neighboring tissues. in its adult stage inhabits the intestine of ~ h ~ ~ ~ ~ i ~ e c h i ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1978
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.6108.301-a