سرواپيدميولوژي كيست هيداتيك در بين 2500 نفر از مراجعين به آزمايشگاههاي تشخيص طبي و سازمان انتقال خون استان چهارمحال و بختياري در سال 1379

Seroepidemiology of hydatid cyst in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province, Iran, 2000

Hydatid cyst is the larval stage of a cestode worm, echinoccus granulosus, which in human and some other mammalians causes echinoccusis disease. Iran is located in endemic zone of this disease and due to existence of sheep husbandry jobs, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province has the potential of high prevalence of the disease. Therefore this descriptive study was performed to find the seroepidemiology of hydatic cyst in human in this area. Serum samples of 1000 blood donors and about 1500 patients who had laboratory diagnostic tests were subjected to immunoeletrophoresis test in order to find possible infection with hydatid cyst. The prevalence of hydatid cyst (seroepidemiology) was 4.8%. The prevalence of the disease among male and female patient was 4.4% and 5.1% respectively. The city of Lordegan had the highest (17.6%) and the city of Ardal had the lowest (1.9%) prevalence of the disease. The prevalence of hydatid cyst in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province is comparable to other investigated areas of Iran. However the prevalence of the disease in this province is higher than that of the other parts of the world.