Imported cystic echinococcosis in western Spain: a retrospective study
| Autor: | Moncef Belhassen-García, Ángela Romero-Alegría, Javier Pardo-Lledias, Virginia Velasco-Tirado, Amparo López-Bernus, Juan Luis Muñoz Bellido, M. Cordero, Montserrat Alonso-Sardón, Adela Carpio-Pérez, Antonio Muro |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject 030231 tropical medicine Immigration Population Emigrants and Immigrants 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Echinococcosis Epidemiology medicine Seroprevalence Humans 030212 general & internal medicine education Echinococcus granulosus media_common Retrospective Studies education.field_of_study biology business.industry Cystic echinococcosis Incidence Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health Retrospective cohort study General Medicine biology.organism_classification Infectious Diseases Spain Tropical medicine Parasitology business Demography |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 1878-3503 |
| Popis: | BACKGROUND In Spain, 12% of the population are immigrants. The impact of immigration in Spain on cystic echinococcosis (CE) is unknown. The aim of this study was to describe the epidemiology of CE in immigrants in western Spain. METHODS First, a retrospective descriptive study of patients diagnosed with CE in the University Hospital of Salamanca (CAUSA) between January 1998 and December 2014 was designed. Second, we studied the seroprevalence of CE in sera from foreigners who received treatment in the Tropical Medicine Unit. RESULTS A total of 550 patients with new CE-related diagnoses were registered; of these, 16 (2.9%) were immigrants, of whom 10 (63%) were male. The age (mean±SD) was 34.6±12.8 years. The incidence rate of CE in immigrants was 8.76 cases per 105 person-years. Eight (50%) cases presented asymptomatically. Seroprevalence of CE in foreign patients was 2.3%. It was higher in North African population (4.2%), followed by sub-Saharan (2.4%) and Latin American (1.8%) (p=0.592) populations. The seroprevalence was higher in those who arrived recently ( |
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