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

• 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

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.