[Serologic longitudinal follow-up of surgically treated patients for hydatidosis].
Beginning with the register of human hydatidosis cases, kept by hydatidosis struggle programs of Rio Negro Province, was done the serologic longitudinal follow-up in patients operated on in the period 1980-1987, in the influence area of Ingeniero Jacobacci, Rio Negro, Argentina. The local Supervision Program obtained blood samples of 36 patients during 1990 (59% of them were operated on in the considered period), five patients died corresponding the remaining to persons to whom did not live in Ingeniero Jacobacci or to whom were not possible to evaluate. The blood samples were studied by DD5, confirming the disease immunologically in 18 cases (50%). In this work are evaluated possible causes of reinfection: surgery technic, individual susceptibility, immunological factors.
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Consejo Provincial de Salud Pública, Viedma, Argentina.
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Parsons
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Pérez
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Pareyra
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001118:Argentina / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004443:Echinococcosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000276:immunology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008875:Middle Aged
Seguimiento serológico longitudinal en pacientes operados de hidatidosis.