Threat of alveolar echinococcosis to public health - a challenge for Europe

Gottstein, Bruno; Stojkovic, Marija; Vuitton, Dominique A; Millon, Laurence; Marcinkute, Audrone; Deplazes, Peter (2015). Threat of alveolar echinococcosis to public health - a challenge for Europe. Trends in parasitology, 31(9), pp. 407-412. Elsevier Current Trends 10.1016/j.pt.2015.06.001

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Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) is a neglected 'malignant' parasitic disease. The European endemic area of Echinococcus multilocularis in foxes is larger than previously anticipated, and there is new evidence that both fox populations and the prevalence of E. multilocularis have increased in many areas, indicating increased pressure for infection with E. multilocularis eggs in intermediate and accidental hosts, including humans. This may result in more human AE cases within the next decades. Current numbers of both immunocompetent and immunocompromised AE patients, and the anticipated future increase, call for scaling-up research to rapidly improve the development and implementation of prevention measures, early diagnosis, and curative treatment of human AE.

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