In humans, cystic echinococcosis is one of the most serious helminthic diseases worldwide. The larval stages (cysts) of Echinococcus granulosus are mainly located in the liver and the lung. Other ...

Cystic echinococcosis (Hydatid Disease) represents an emerging illness found in humans and livestock that arises as a result of eating infective eggs of the cestode parasite Echinococcus granulosus – ...

An adolescent boy presented with vague respiratory symptoms and mild right upper quadrant abdominal pain. Following physical ...

A parasitic tapeworm that hides silently in the body for up to 15 years is spreading westward across the United States, and ...

Ever since Hippocrates described Hydatid disease, physicians all over the world have encountered it in various organs. Hydatid disease is also referred to as echinococcosis or echinococcal disease. It ...

E. multilocularis is a causative agent of alveolar echinococcosis, a rare zoonotic disease that mainly affects the liver, and is transmitted by ingestion of tapeworm eggs with forest fruits ...

To the Editor: Brainard and Ryan present excellent images from a patient with suspected thoracic echinococcosis (Feb. 6 issue). 1 However, the authors performed ultrasound-guided diagnostic aspiration ...

In this Journal feature, information about a real patient is presented in stages (boldface type) to an expert clinician, who responds to the information, sharing his or her reasoning with the reader ...

2 Department of Dermatology, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Kraków, Poland We present a case of a 70‑year‑old woman, a long‑time resident of a rural area in the Subcarpathia region, with a ...