Sindičić Magda, Bujanić Miljenko, Štimac Iva, Martinković Franjo, Tuškan Nikolina, Špehar Marina, Konjević Dean
Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Zagreb, Heinzelova 55, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Acta Parasitol. 2018 Sep 25;63(3):654-656. doi: 10.1515/ap-2018-0076.
Alveolar echinococcosis, caused by the tapeworm Echinococcus multilocularis, is one of the world's most dangerous zoonosis and an emerging disease with growing incidence in humans. The disease has been reported in new areas and host species in the last two decades, and the primary hosts of the parasite - red fox, golden jackal and grey wolf - are expanding their distribution in Europe. Here we report the morphological and molecular identification of Echinococcus multilocularis tapeworms in one of 29 carcasses of adult golden jackals in Croatia, where the only previous report of the parasite was in red foxes in 2016. These results suggest that alveolar echinococcosis should be treated as an emerging disease in Croatia.
肺泡型包虫病由多房棘球绦虫引起，是世界上最危险的人畜共患病之一，也是一种在人类中发病率不断上升的新发疾病。在过去二十年中，该病已在新的地区和宿主物种中被报道，而该寄生虫的主要宿主——赤狐、金豺和灰狼——正在欧洲扩大其分布范围。在此，我们报告了在克罗地亚29只成年金豺尸体中的一只体内发现的多房棘球绦虫的形态学和分子鉴定结果，此前该寄生虫在克罗地亚的唯一报告是2016年在赤狐中发现。这些结果表明，在克罗地亚，肺泡型包虫病应被视为一种新发疾病。
