The Investigation of Indirect Hemaglutınatıon (IHA) test results of patient with early diagnosis Cystic Echinococcosis

Abstract

INTRODUCTION: Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is an important parasitic disease which is common in the world and our country. In this study, It was aimed to retrospectively evaluate the Indirect Hemaglutination (IHA) test results of patients with suspected cystic echinococcosis sent to the Erzurum Regional Training and Research Hospital Microbiology Laboratory. METHODS: Between January 2008 and December 2016, the results of 3771 patients who had been sent to our laboratory were evaluated retrospectively. RESULTS: Serum samples obtained from patients were studied by (IHA) method. Results of 1/160 titer and above were evaluated as positive. 530 (%14,05) of the 3771 patients who were included in the study were found to have positive İHA of the 530 patients evaluated as positive, 310 (%58,49) were female and 220 (41,51%) were male. Positive case numbers were observed to be highest in 25-49 age groups, at least in 0-14 age groups, DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION: As a conclusion, we can say that women have higher CE positivity and that the incidence of the disease is higher in middle age group irrespective of sex.

Keywords

• cystic echinococcosis
• iha
• diagnosis