A 6-year retrospective study based on abattoir records was carried out to determine the prevalence of hydatidosis in dromedaries in Khorasan province in north-eastern Iran. Between 20 March 2004 and 19 March 2010, 25,255 dromedaries were slaughtered in the study area and the livers of 2791 (11.1%) and the lungs of 3289 dromedaries (13.2%) were discarded due to hydatidosis. The annual prevalence...

Hydatidosis is a disease affecting most commonly liver and lungs and belongs to the list of the top 17 neglected tropical diseases. Hydatid disease is caused by the infection that, in humans, is due to the larval stage of the Echinococcus granulosus, more specifically by the complex of subtypes that give it the name, Echinococcus multilocularis or Echinococcus Vogeli. These complexes generate c...

Cystic echinococcosis is one of the most widespread parasitosis in the Mediterranean region. Unfortunately this is also true for Sardinia for various reasons, among which is the close relationship between sheep and dogs in the farms. This work first epidemiologically analyses hydatidosis in sheep in Sardinia and then examines the most important causes of the persistence of these metacestodosis ...

INTRODUCTION Hydatidosis is a human disease caused by the larval form of Echinococcus granulosus. All organs in the human body may be affected by hydatid disease, but excluding liver and lungs, all other organs are considered as uncommon locations. Hydatid disease located in the psoas muscle is uncommon. CASE OUTLINE The authors present a 36-year-old male living in endemic areas of Serbia, ad...

To further assess the double diffusion arc 5 (DD5) test for human hydatidosis, the test was performed on sera from 45 patients with surgically confirmed hydatidosis and 54 with other pathologies in Santiago, Chile. Combined with tests reported previously, this brought the total number of study subjects with confirmed hydatidosis to 98 and the total with other pathologies to 128. Overall, the te...

Echinococcus multilocularis and Echinococcus granulosus metacestode infections in humans cause alveolar echinococcosis and cystic echinococcosis, respectively, in which metacestode development in visceral organs often results in particular organ failure. Further, cystic hydatidosis in farm animals causes severe economic losses. Although benzimidazole derivatives such as mebendazole and albendaz...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to detect the Glutathione S-Transferase(GST) enzyme activity of healthy / cystic liver as a diagnostic biomarker for hydatidosis. In order to compare with liver tissue, the level of the GSTs enzyme activity of parasite was also determined. METHODS Parasites were collected from sheep liver tissue with hydatid cysts at a local abattoir and washed with PBS bu...

hydatidosis is endemic in iran. this disease frequently invades the liver and lungs. the frequency of multiple organ involve¬ment ranges between 11% and 30%. this study revealed a five -year-old female with missed multifocal and multior¬gan localization of hydatic cyst. the patient presented with a complaint of persistent fever and respiratory distress. in compute¬rized tomography (ct) of the t...

hydatid disease is endemic in some parts of the world. this disease can occur in any organ. we present a 22-year-old farmer who was suffering from hydatidosis for 4 years. he was admitted to the hospital because of fever, cough, and chest pain in 2004. a chest radiograph revealed multiple nodules in both of lungs. a transthoracic echocardiogram showed cystic lesion in the apex of right ventricl...