this study has been conducted in the slaughter- house of the city of kerman, for one year, starting march 1993. a total number of 16402 livestocks including 5013 sheep, 8163 goats and 3226 cattle were examined in a regular manner, 120 days, with a mean of 30 days per season. after recording the king, sex and origin of each animal, liver and lungs were examined carefully for hydatid cyst. in gen...

*Corresponding author: María Celina Elissondo, Instituto de Investigaciones en Producción, Sanidad y Ambiente (IIPROSAM) Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales. Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata., Funes 3250, 7600-Mar del Plata, Argentina. Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas (CONICET), Buenos Aires, Argentina. Funes 3250, 7600 Mar del Plata, Consejo Nacional de Inve...

Echinococcus vogeli infection in a hunter from the rain forest of French Guiana was confirmed by imaging and mitochondrial DNA sequence analysis. Serologic examination showed typical patterns for both alveolar and cystic echinococcosis. Polycystic echinococcis caused by E. vogeli may be an emerging parasitic disease in Central and South America.

Alveolar echinococcosis of the liver can be mistaken as a liver tumor. The occurrence of the fox tapeworm echinococcus multilocularis is increasing in formerly unaffected European regions. As a consequence, alveolar echinococcosis is becoming an important differential diagnosis in Eastern and Northern Europe.

RAu M. E. and TANNER C. E. 1976. Echinococcus multilocufaris in the cotton rat: growth of intrathoracic metastases following surgical removal of subcutaneous cysts. International Journal for Parasitology 6: 151-153. The radical resection of large, established subcutaneous cysts of Echinoc5ccus multiloculuris results in a ZO-fold increase in the weight of its intrathoracic metastases. While all ...

Some helminths have by their evolution learnt to systemically invade a host organism, and to select specific organs or host cell types as predilection site to reside, maturate or even proliferate. These parasites needed to develop complex and unique strategies to escape host immune reactions. The present work sheds some light into the strategy developed by three different helminths (Echinococcu...

It has been demonstrated that human hydatidosis was generally due to G1 genotype of Echinococcus granulosus throughout the world. Nevertheless, some other genotypes, such as G3, were recently identified for human cyst. The present work confirms the predominance of the sheep strain G1 in humans, bovine and ovine and demonstrates for the first time the occurrence of the buffalo strain G3 in human...

BACKGROUND Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a globally distributed cestode zoonosis that causes hepatic cysts. Although Echinococcus granulosus sensu stricto (s.s.) is the major causative agent of CE worldwide, recent molecular epidemiological studies have revealed that E. canadensis is common in countries where camels are present. One such country is Mongolia. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS For...