Cystic echinococcosis

Hydatidosis or cyst hydatic disease is a cosmopolitan larval cestodosis caused principally by the <i>Echinococcus granulosus</i> tapeworm, the adult form of which parasitises the intestine of dogs. Hydatidosis generally affects large domestic herbivores; humans are dead-end hosts, infected through contact with herding dogs or through ingestion of food contaminated with canine excrement.

Granulocytopenia

An abnormally reduced number of granulocytes in the blood.


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PMID (PMCID)
3868420
FEMALE Middle Aged
Hydatid disease: the alveolar variety in Australia. A case report with comment on the toxicity of mebendazole.
Braithwaite PA, Thomas RJ, Thompson RC.
Aust N Z J Surg. 1985;55(5):519-23.
We present a case report of a patient with alveolar hydatid disease, whose treatment with mebendazole was brief due to side effects of alopecia and granulocytopenia; and review the features of this disease which, with increasing international migration, may be encountered more frequently in Australia.