Childhood suffering: hyper endemic echinococcosis in Qinghai-Tibetan primary school students, China

Infectious Diseases of Poverty
Xiu-Min HanYongshun Wang

Abstract

As part of an ongoing program that aims to use early detection and timely treatment to improve the control of echinococcosis, especially in younger age groups, we undertook a series of active surveys among Qinghai-Tibetan children in the Qinghai Province of Northwestern China in 2011 and 2012. The significant outcomes that resulted from this study emphasize the need to draw attention to echinococcosis, both alveolar echinococcosis (AE) and cystic echinococcosis (CE), so that policy development is promoted and suitable avenues for control are identified in the highly endemic areas on the Tibetan Plateau. A total of 19 629 primary school students, aged 6-18 years, with a dominant Tibetan background underwent abdominal ultrasound examination, and 86.4% of the compliant students donated 2-5 ml of venous blood for serological tests. All the abnormal ultrasound results were recorded. If identified as echinococcosis, the disease lesion was assessed according to the WHO-Informal Working Group on Echinococcosis (WHO-IWGE) classification for AE and CE. Among the surveyed students, the prevalence by school was compared among geo-locations, sex and age groups. The clinical image presentations were analyzed according to lesion number, size,...Continue Reading

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May 31, 2019·Infection·Sven BaumannUNKNOWN interdisciplinary Echinococcosis Working Group Ulm
Apr 30, 2019·Infectious Diseases of Poverty·Bin LiXiao-Nong Zhou
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Apr 21, 2021·Acta Tropica·Mei-Hua FuWei-Ping Wu

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