seroepidemiological survey of hydatid cyst by elisa in kordestan province

objective: this study was conducted to evaluate the frequency of human hydatidosis in kurdestan province by elisa technique. materials and methods: in this study the sera of 1979 individuals were collected from different area (cities and villages) of kordestan province. the serum dilution of 1/400 was selected for elisa test. results:the results indicated that 1.12% of the individuals from kordestan province showed positive sera. the results also showed that in kordestan 0.9 % and 1.42% of the people who live in the cities and villages had positive sera respectively. in this study 1.65% of female and 0.45 % of male were positive. from the obtained result we found maximum number of infected people were in the range of 30-40 years (1.59%). conclusion: according to the results obtained from this study the highest percent of infection was found in the city of ivandarre, the reasone for this defference (1.69%) is due to the fact that most of the people who are involved in animal husbendary in the province live in this city.