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. 2015 Jun;39(2):234-7.
doi: 10.1007/s12639-013-0328-z. Epub 2013 Jun 20.

Importance of cystic echinococcosis in slaughtered herbivores from Iran

Behrouz Ezatpour  1 , Seid Jafar Farhadi  2 , Mehdi Azami  3 , Masoud Alirezaei  4 , Farzad Ebrahimzadeh  5
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Importance of cystic echinococcosis in slaughtered herbivores from Iran

Behrouz Ezatpour et al. J Parasit Dis. 2015 Jun.

Abstract

Cystic echinococcosis (CE) or hydatidosis is well-known as one of the zoonotic diseases in world-wide including Iran. Hydatidosis was considered as a disease that causes severe reduction in meat wool and milk in livestock animals which all of them indicating its importance. Thus, present study was designed to evaluated prevalence of CE in slaughtered animals from Delfan region in Lorestan province of Iran. The samples 6,885 animals were considered based on type of species in a slaughter from Lorestan province. The study performed from 3 April 2009 to 3 April 2012 and inspection carried out from 4,101 cattle, 2,150 sheep and 634 goat. The liver and lungs examined based on CE and showed the highest prevalence in cattle (25.7 %) and the lowest 3.8 % in goat, likewise, CE was more in the lung than to liver. There was significant difference between species of animals and infected organ (P < 0.001). The highest prevalence was seen in winter (32.8 % for cattle, 8.1 % for goat) while, it was 15.7 % for sheep in summer (P = 0.04). Overall these data indicate the necessity of disease control strategy for reduction of CE.

Keywords: Cystic echinococcosis; Delfan; Iran; Slaughtered herbivores.

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