Second reported case of multilocular hydatid disease in Iraq

Abdul-Khalik Zaki Benyan; Nadham Kadham Mahdi; Fouzi Abdul-Amir; Osama Ubaid

doi:10.5339/qmj.2013.5

ISSN: 0253-8253
EISSN: 2227-0426

oa Second reported case of multilocular hydatid disease in Iraq
Authors: Abdul-Khalik Zaki Benyan¹, Nadham Kadham Mahdi², Fouzi Abdul-Amir¹ and Osama Ubaid¹
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Affiliations: ¹ ¹Department of Surgery, Al-Sadar Teaching Hospital, College of Medicine, University of Basrah, Basrah, Iraq. ² ²Department of Microbiology, College of Medicine, University of Basrah, Basrah, Iraq
Source: Qatar Medical Journal, Volume 2013, Issue 1, Nov 2013, 5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5339/qmj.2013.5
- Received: 15 May 2013
- Accepted: 29 May 2013
- Published online: 01 November 2013

Abstract

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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Second reported case of multilocular hydatid disease in Iraq

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