Hydatid Disease in the Hamar of Ethiopia: a Public Health Problem for Women

Overview

Journal Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialties Public Health
Tropical Medicine

Date 1993 May 1

PMID 8236382

Citations 7

Authors

P Klungsoyr

P Courtright

T H Hendrikson

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Abstract

A population-based study of hydatid disease was conducted among the Hamar of Ethiopia. Seven of 990 patients examined with a portable ultrasound scanner proved to have cysts (0.7% prevalence). Cysts were most common (4.7%) among women > or = 40 years of age. Only one male presented with a cyst. These results indicate a sex-specific hydatid public health problem in this tribe.

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