Open AccessSecond reported case of multilocular hydatid disease in Iraq
Author(s) -
Abdul-Khalik Z. Benyan,
Nadham K. Mahdi,
Fouzi Abdul-Amir,
Osama Ubaid
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
qatar medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.171
H-Index - 9
eISSN - 2227-0426
pISSN - 0253-8253
DOI - 10.5339/qmj.2013.5
Subject(s) - medicine , hydatid cyst , echinococcus granulosus , echinococcus multilocularis , disease , zoonotic disease , enzootic , endemic disease , public health , echinococcosis , parasitic disease , pathology , cyst , virology , zoology , biology , virus
Hydatid disease is an important zoonotic disease with a worldwide distribution. In the Middle East, as well as in some other parts of the world, it has always been a serious economic and public health problem. The disease is endemic and enzootic in Iraq. In Iraq, the disease is caused by Echinococcus granulosus but a multilocular hydatid cyst of E. multilocularis has been recovered from the liver of a woman in Erbil, North Iraq. This paper documents the second case of hydatid disease caused by E. multilocularis, this time reported in Basrah, Southern Iraq.