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.

Gallbladder dysfunction



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PMID (PMCID)
15549437
 MIXED_SAMPLE Middle Aged
Primary hydatid disease of the gallbladder: a rare clinical entity.
Safioleas M, Stamoulis I, Theocharis S, Moulakakis K, Makris S, Kostakis A.
J Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg. 2004;11(5):352-6.
Unlike the insidious hydatid cysts of the liver, gallbladder hydatidosis in our patients was associated with early diagnosis, due to gallbladder dysfunction symptoms presenting early in its course.