Abstract
Austria is part of the classical area of central Europe to which alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is endemic. Annual incidences in Austria were 2.4 and 2.8 cases/100,000 population during 1991–2000 and 2001–2010, respectively. Hence, the registration of 13 new AE patients in 2011 was unexpected. Increasing fox populations and past AE underreporting might have caused this increase.
Highlights
Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is one of the most serious helminthic diseases of humans
All available details about sex, age, province of origin, results of serologic and molecular biologic investigations, histopathologic findings, and clinical status of alveolar echinococcosis (AE) patients before AE diagnosis were logged into an Excel spreadsheet (Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA) and analyzed
We know from studies in Switzerland and Poland that increasing fox populations changed their population dynamics and live in proximity of villages or even cities [6,14]
Summary
Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is one of the most serious helminthic diseases of humans. It is caused by the larval stages (metacestodes) of the fox tapeworm, Echinococcus multilocularis. From the Austrian echinococcosis researcher, Adolf Posselt, who documented all reported human AE cases during 1867–1936, we know that the annual incidence of AE in Austria was 1.4 cases at the beginning of the twentieth century and that most patients resided in Austrias western provinces, Vorarlberg and Tyrol [3]. All available details about sex, age, province of origin, results of serologic and molecular biologic investigations, histopathologic findings, and clinical status of AE patients before AE diagnosis were logged into an Excel spreadsheet (Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA) and analyzed
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