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Tommaso Manciulli1,2,3, Riccardo Serraino4, Gian Luca D'Alessandro1, Letizia Cattaneo5, Mara Mariconti3, Ambra Vola3, Francesco Taccari6, Roberta Narra1, Giuseppe De Vito7, Enrico Maria Trecarichi4, Maria Mazzitelli4, Giovanni Matera8, Adriano Casulli9,10, Nadia Marascio8, Enrico Brunetti1,3, Francesca Tamarozzi10, Carlo Torti4.
Abstract
Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is one of the neglected tropical diseases recognized by the WHO. Echinococcus granulosus sensu lato affects more than 1 million people worldwide and is responsible for high costs in the healthcare system. A clear knowledge of the prevalence of CE and its clinical characteristics could have an important impact on the approach to its diagnosis and to the public health planning of treatment and control interventions. We performed a prevalence study in four municipalities of Catanzaro Province, South Italy. This area is considered to be at high risk of CE because of ovine breeding. We screened by abdominal ultrasound 2,426 volunteers, four of whom had abdominal CE. Given the need for prevention and control programs for CE in endemic areas of Italy, a detailed mapping of prevalence of CE, to complement data obtained through hospital discharge records, appears imperative.Entities:
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Year: 2020 PMID： 32975181 PMCID： PMC7646790 DOI： 10.4269/ajtmh.20-0119
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Am J Trop Med Hyg ISSN： 0002-9637 Impact factor: 2.345