[Polycystic echinococcosis in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon: an update].
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an update of polycystic echinococcosis in the Eastern Brazilian Amazon, period from 1962 to 2003, including unpublished cases and those already published.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.
Soares
Manoel do Carmo Pereira
Mdo C
Instituto Evandro Chagas da Secretaria de Vigilância em Saúde do Ministério da Saúde, Belém, PA. manoelsoares@iec.pa.gov.br
Moreira-Silva
Carlos Augusto
CA
Alves
Max Moreira
MM
Nunes
Heloisa Marceliano
HM
Amaral
Ivanete Abraçado do
IA
Móia
Lizomar de Jesus Maués Pereira
Lde J
Conde
Simone Regina Souza da Silva
SR
Almeida
Fernanda Barbosa
FB
Rodrigues-Silva
Rosângela
R
Crescente
José Angelo Barletta
JA
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000818:Animals; D001938:Brazil / Q000453:epidemiology; D002648:Child; D004443:Echinococcosis / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology*; D004446:Echinococcus / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015151:Immunoblotting; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged