Year: 2004
Type: review
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: By means of epidemiological and clinical-laboratorial approaches was consolidated an update of polycystic echinococcosis in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon, period from 1962 to 2003, including unpublished cases and those already published. In that way, they were identified 40 cases of the disease in referred period, understanding cases coming from the States of Pará and Amapá, Brazil. The width of the ages went from 10 to 72 years and 47.5% belonged to the masculine sex. The liver was the attacked organ (82.5% of the cases). The Echinococcus vogeli (Rausch and Bernstein, 1972), comes as the main agent involved. Starting from the recognition of the importance and of the implications of the handling of the echinococcosis for the tropical area, it is believed that should happen an improvement of the diagnosis, appropriate treatment and of a better registration of the disease.
Authors: Manoel do Carmo Pereira Soares, Carlos Augusto Moreira-Silva, Max Moreira Alves, Heloisa Marceliano Nunes, Ivanete Abraçado do Amaral, Lizomar de Jesus Maués Pereira Móia, Simone Regina Souza da Silva Conde, Fernanda Barbosa Almeida, Rosângela Rodrigues-Silva, José Ângelo Barletta Crescente
Language: Portuguese
Subfield: Parasitology
Field: Immunology and Microbiology
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2078099596