First report of a human case of polycystic echinococcosis due to Echinococcus vogeli from neotropical area of Peru, South America

We report a human case of polycystic hidatidosis due to Echinococcus vogeli from Contamana (Department of Loreto) village located in the central jungle of Peru. The patient is a 44 year-old lady, teacher, who carried a painless liver mass since a year ago. She was submitted to abdominal surgery and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: José R. Somocurcio, Elizabeth L. Sánchez, César Náquira, José Schilder, Francisco Rojas, Pedro Chacón, Alejandro Yabar
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo (USP) 2004
Subjects:
E. vogeli
Human case
Perú
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
RC955-962
Infectious and parasitic diseases
RC109-216
Arctic
Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/5e0107b19ea141ee9d9b4ee41f919103
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Summary:We report a human case of polycystic hidatidosis due to Echinococcus vogeli from Contamana (Department of Loreto) village located in the central jungle of Peru. The patient is a 44 year-old lady, teacher, who carried a painless liver mass since a year ago. She was submitted to abdominal surgery and the liver mass was removed and showed multiple cysts containing colorless liquid as is showed in the polycystic hidatidosis. The morphology and measure of the hooks obtained from the liquid contained in the cysts are from Echinococcus vogeli. It is the first report of this parasitism in Perú.

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