Thailand is a nonendemic area of echinococcosis. We report, herein, 3 cases with a special note on the use of serology in detection of the disease in one family. All cases were Thais. The first case was a man, having a cystic mass in the liver. He was subsequently diagnosed as having echinococcosis following positive serology. The second case, a male, had a renal hydatid cyst revealed by histop...

Alveolar echinococcosis is a parasitic disease limited to the northern hemisphere. The disease occurs primarily in the liver and shows a profile mimicking slow-growing malignant tumors. Echinococcus multilocularis infection is fatal if left untreated. It can cause several complications by infiltrating the vascular structures, biliary tracts, and the hilum of the liver. As it can invade the adja...

The incidence and prevalence of cystic echinococcosis have fallen dramatically over the past several decades. Nonetheless, cystic echinococcosis remains a major public health issue in several countries and regions as a result of a reduction of control programmes due to economic problems. Geographic distribution differs by country and region depending on the presence of large numbers of nomadic ...

Echinococcosis is a parasitic zoonosis of increasing concern. In 1903, the first cases of human polycystic echinococcosis, a disease resembling alveolar echinococcosis, emerged in Argentina. One of the parasites responsible, Echinococcus oligarthrus, had been discovered in its adult strobilar stage before 1850. However, >100 years passed from the first description of the adult parasite to the r...

Abstract The role of the calcifying nanoparticles (CNPs) in calcification process outer cyst wall hepatic cystic echinococcosis (HCE) remains unknown. CNPs were isolated from tissues patients with HCE. Western blotting, alkaline phosphatase staining, and alizarin staining performed to detect cellular calcium ion deposition induced by CNPs. CCK-8 flow cytometry assays conducted determine effect ...

1 2 Threat of alveolar echinococcosis to public health – a challenge for Europe 3 4 5 Bruno Gottstein, Marija Stojkovic, Dominique A. Vuitton, Laurence Millon, Audrone 6 Marcinkute, and Peter Deplazes 7 8 1. Institute of Parasitology, University of Bern, Switzerland 9 2. University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany 10 3. WHO-Collaborating Centre on Prevention and Treatment of Human Echinococcosis an...

The present article describes the importance of human echinococcosis as a public health problem in Bulgaria, outlines the control measures carried out and evaluates comparatively the situation over three periods spanning 46 years (1950-1995). During the first period (1950-62), a total of 6469 new surgically confirmed cases of hydatid disease were recorded in Bulgaria, with an annual incidence o...

One of the significant problems in pediatrics remains tuberculosis children and adolescents. Particular attention verification radiological syndrome, as a “rounded” shadow, is given to tuberculosis. This not always justified. Echinococcosis parasitic disease cyclic nature, affecting vital organs, including lungs. manifestations echinococcosis lungs rounded shadow which requires multidisciplinar...

Cardiac echinococcosis is an infrequent disease and is seen in 0.2–3% of patients with echinococcal disease. Transthoracic echocardiography has been used to diagnose and evaluate intracardiac echinococcosis. 2 Septal involvement of the hydatid cyst is observed quite rarely and is always associated with various conduction disturbances, as well as sudden death from arrhythmias. Cardiac involvemen...

Hydatid disease, which is also known as cystic echinococcosis, is a zoonotic infection caused by the cestode tapeworm Echinococcus granulosus and rarely by Echinococcus multilocularis. In this report we describe an unusual case of a 19-year-old woman who was admitted to our hospital for abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting. Computed tomography revealed multi-organ abdominal echinococcosis. The ...