background: echinococcosis is one of the most important helminthic zoonotic diseases in iran. intestinal scraping tech­nique (ist), the traditional method for diagnosis of the infection in definitive hosts, has many disadvantages including low sus­ceptibil­ity and being expensive, hazardous and laborious. detection of coproantigens in fecal samples by enzyme-linked immu­nosorbent assay (ca-elis...

Background: Lung hydatidosis is a zoonosis related to infection by the Echinococcus tapeworm species. involvement in this condition second only liver echinococcosis. Diagnosis ordinarily results from an accidental finding direct chest radiograph evaluation because of delayed growth cysts. Moreover, consistent treatment regimen or approach may not be feasible variability pulmonary In review, we ...

Mebendazole and albendazole are the drugs of choice for the treatment of alveolar echinococcosis. In this open-labelled observational study we present and evaluate the outcome of long-term treatment with these drugs and present results of different treatment regimens. Thirty-five patients were started on either mebendazole or albendazole at the beginning of 1992 and followed for an average of 3...

BACKGROUND Cystic echinococcosis is a worldwide distributed helminth zoonosis caused by the larval stage of Echinococcus granulosus. Human secondary cystic echinococcosis is caused by dissemination of protoscoleces after accidental rupture of fertile cysts and is due to protoscoleces ability to develop into new metacestodes. In the experimental model of secondary cystic echinococcosis mice reac...

UNLABELLED We report a rare case of a cardiac hydatid cyst that was incidentally found during routine work up for a redo-CABG and was picked up on echocardiography and confirmed by magnetic resonance imaging and, after successful removal, further confirmed by histopathology. The report emphasizes the importance of early and urgent surgery for such cardiac hydatid cysts whenever discovered to pr...

Background: Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a chronic, rare and sometimes lethal parasitic infection in humans, caused by the larval stage of the fox tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis. This study aimed to investigate the clinical aspects and treatment outcomes of patients with alveolar hydatid disease. Methods: The medical records of patients with alveolar echinococcosis admitted between ...