Unexpected Increase of Alveolar Echincoccosis, Austria, 2011

Overview

Journal Emerg Infect Dis

Specialty Infectious Diseases

Date 2013 May 1

PMID 23628138

Citations 20

Authors

Renate Schneider

Horst Aspock

Herbert Auer

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Abstract

In Central Europe, classical 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.

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