Human Alveolar Echinococcosis in Kyrgyzstan

Abstract

Human echinococcosis is a reportable disease in Kyrgyzstan. Between 1995 and 2011, human alveolar echinococcosis increased from 60 cases per year. The origins of this epidemic, which started in 2004, may be linked to the socioeconomic changes that followed the dissolution of the former Soviet Union.

Keywords

• Echinococcus multilocularis
• emergence
• Alveolar echinococcosis
• Kyrgyzstan
• Central Asia
• tapeworms