Hydatidosis–echinococcosis in Greece

Infection prevalence of hydatidosis (<i>Echinococcus granulosus</i>, Batsch, 1786) in domestic animals in Ethiopia: A synthesis report of previous surveys

“…Bovine hydatidosis prevalence of 22.1% was reported from Tigray region (Kebede, et al, 2009), 13.86% from 7 export abattoirs (Solomon Hailemariam, 1975) (Ernest et al, 2004) and 6.02% in shoats and 4.2% in cattle from Arusha area of Tanzania (Nonga and Karimuribo, 2009), 19.4% in cattle, 3.6% in sheep, 4.5% in goats and 61.4% in camels from Kenya (Njoroge et al, 2002), 6.6% in cattle, 4.3% in sheep and 27.2% in camels from Libya (Mohammed, 1985), 31.6% in cattle, 24.4% in sheep, 42.2% in goats and 59.9% in pigs from Niger (Arene, 1985), 8.28% in cattle, 12.61% in sheep and 6.56% in goats and 32.85% in camels from Saudi Arabia (Ibrahim, 2010), 3% in cattle, 7% in sheep and 45% in camels from Sudan (Elmahdi et al, 2004) and 18.3% in sheep from Argentina (Larrieu et al, 2001). Sotiraki et al, (2003) reported a prevalence of 82% in cattle, 80% in sheep, 24% in goats and 5% in pigs from Greece before the introduction of control program in 1984 which reduced the occurrence of the disease to 0% in cattle, to 31.3% in sheep, to 10.3% in goats and to 0.6% in pigs. A decrease in annual prevalence of camel liver hydatidosis from 24.1% in 2004 to 6.8% in 2010 and a corresponding decrease in annual prevalence of camel lung hydatidosis from 28.7% in 2004 to 7.1% in 2010 were also reported from Iran as a result of greater awareness created about echinococcosis among farmers (Borji, 2011).…”

Global Distribution of Alveolar and Cystic Echinococcosis

“…In definitive hosts, prevalences were as follow: sheepdogs 50.4%, sentinel dogs 26.9%, hunting dogs 19.2%, urban stray dogs 9.3% and companion (pet) dogs 0e1% (Sotiraki et al, 2003). A control programme has been in force since 1984, and surveillance in livestock species since 1998 has documented prevalences of 31.3% in sheep, 10.3% in goats, 0.6% in pigs and 0% in cattle (Sotiraki et al, 2003). A survey conducted by Chaligiannis et al (2015) conducted an epidemiological survey in different geographical regions of Greece (Thrace, Thessaly, Western and central Macedonia).…”

“…The prevalence of infection in farm animals was as high as 82% in cattle, 80% in sheep, 24% in goats and 5% in pigs (Sotiraki et al, 2003). In definitive hosts, prevalences were as follow: sheepdogs 50.4%, sentinel dogs 26.9%, hunting dogs 19.2%, urban stray dogs 9.3% and companion (pet) dogs 0e1% (Sotiraki et al, 2003). A control programme has been in force since 1984, and surveillance in livestock species since 1998 has documented prevalences of 31.3% in sheep, 10.3% in goats, 0.6% in pigs and 0% in cattle (Sotiraki et al, 2003).…”

“…The prevalence of infection in farm animals was as high as 82% in cattle, 80% in sheep, 24% in goats and 5% in pigs (Sotiraki et al, 2003). In definitive hosts, prevalences were as follow: sheepdogs 50.4%, sentinel dogs 26.9%, hunting dogs 19.2%, urban stray dogs 9.3% and companion (pet) dogs 0e1% (Sotiraki et al, 2003).…”

An ethnopharmacological and historical analysis of “Dictamnus”, a European traditional herbal medicine

“…Notably, certain infectious and parasitic diseases (12%), which presents a high relevance, in the Balkans, where helminthiases continue to be a serious public health problem. For instance, food-borne helminthiasis, including hydatidosis/echinococcosis (Dakkak, 2010;Sotiraki et al, 2003), trichinellosis, opistorchiasis, and taeniasis-cysticercosis (Hotez & Gurwith, 2011;Neghina et al, 2011), and soil-transmitted helminth infections (ascariasis, trichuriasis and toxocariasis) (Hotez and Gurwith, 2011) are relatively frequent causes of morbidity. On the other hand, the treatment of plague (Vokou et al, 1993) is likely a misunderstanding or directly a copy from old herbals considering the epidemiological evidence for Greece during the last 100 years (WHO, 2015b).…”