Human echinococcosis: a neglected disease?
Human echinococcosis: a neglected disease?
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DOI：
10.2149/tmh.35.283
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发表时间：
2007-01-01
影响因子：
4.5
通讯作者：
Yang, Y. R.
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作者：
Craig, P. S.;Budke, C. M.;Yang, Y. R.
人类棘球蚴病是一种人畜共患的绦虫病，通常由细粒棘球蚴或棘球蚴引起。多房的感染是慢性的，需要数年的时间才能出现症状。由于诊断和治疗很困难，而且家养牲畜、狗或野生动物中存在感染宿主，因此该疾病很难从公共卫生方面进行评估，需要长期控制干预措施。估计在两个大的流行区可能发生的囊状棘球蚴病病例数，北非/中东和中国/中亚分别显示>423000和>484000例。在全球范围内，由于包虫病，可能会损失360万丹麦克朗。因此，棘球蚴病是一种被忽视的疾病，报告不足，需要与其他一些人畜共患病一样予以紧急关注，以降低发病率，帮助缓解亚热带和温带贫困牧区的贫困。
Human echinococcosis is a zoonotic larval cestode disease usually caused by Echinococcus granulosus or E. multilocularis. Infection is chronic taking years for symptoms to develop. Because diagnosis and treatment are difficult and reservoirs of infection are maintained in domestic livestock, dogs or wildlife, the disease is difficult to assess in terms of public health and requires long-term control interventions. Estimates of numbers of cystic echinococcosis cases that may occur in 2 large endemic zones, i.e., North Africa/Middle East and China/Central Asia, indicates >423000 and >484000 cases, respectively. Globally, 3.6 million DALYs could be lost due to echinococcosis. Echinococcosis is therefore a neglected disease which is under-reported and requires urgent attention in common with a number of other zoonoses in order to reduce morbidity and to help alleviate poverty in poor pastoral areas of the sub-tropics and temperate zones.