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SHORT PAPER Human hydatidosis in Dalmatia, Croatia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1997

M. MOROVIĆ
M. MOROVIĆ
Affiliation:
Clinic for Infectious Diseases, Clinical Hospital Centre of Rijeka, Medical Faculty University of Rijeka, Kresimirova 42, HR-51000 Rijeka, Croatia
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Abstract

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Human echinococcosis remains a very serious public health problem worldwide, although a decline in incidence has been observed in some endemic areas during the last decades. However, in some non-endemic areas an increase in new cases and new foci of animal echinococcosis were registered during the same time. In Dalmatia, a well known endemic area of hydatidosis in the most Mediterranean part of Croatia, from the mid-1950s until present a decrease of incidence of over 70% has been registered. Age, sex and occupational category specific incidence as well as lethality rate have remained the same as before. Migrations from rural to urban regions seem to be the most important parameter in the changing epidemiology of human hydatidosis in Dalmatia.

Type
Brief Report
Information
Epidemiology & Infection , Volume 119 , Issue 2 , October 1997 , pp. 271 - 276
Copyright
© 1997 Cambridge University Press