Second reported case of multilocular hydatid disease in Iraq | Zendy

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Second reported case of multilocular hydatid disease in Iraq

Author(s) -

Abdul-Khalik Zaki Benyan,

Nadham Kadham 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.

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