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.

Liver abscess

The presence of an abscess of the liver.


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PMID (PMCID)
3665896
 FEMALE Middle Aged
Streptococcus milleri infection of a hepatopulmonary hydatid cyst.
Masterton RG, O'Doherty MJ, Eykyn SJ.
Eur J Clin Microbiol. 1987;6(4):414-5.
Although hydatid disease and pyogenic liver abscess are both rare in the UK, an underlying echinococcal pathology should be suspected in any patient from an area endemic for hydatid who presents with a pyogenic hepatic or hepatopulmonary abscess.