Title
La infección por Fasciola hepatica en el Perú: una enfermedad emergente
Other title
Fasciola hepatica infection in Peru: an emergent disease
Date Issued
01 January 2007
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
review
Publisher(s)
Sociedad de Gastroenterologia del Peru
Abstract
OBJETIVE. The study is a recompilation of the reported human cases of Fasciola hepatica infection in Peru since 1963 to 2005. METHODS: We review the electronic documentation of bibliographic resources in MEDLINE, LILACS, libraries of the medical, veterinary, philosophy and sciences faculties of the main universities and scientific institutions from Peru. We include all the references from national and international journals who report Peruvian cases of fasciolosis. RESULTS: 1701 subjects in total were report in Peru between 1963 and 2005. The range of the age of the reported cases goes from 1 year to 71 years. Females were significative more common than males. 191cases were acute (11%); 1313 chronic (77.1%); y 167, chronic asymptomatic (9.8%). The reported cases came from 17/24 departments of Peru that represent 71% of the; Peruvian territory. The number the reported cases are increasing during the last decade to reach 54.1 cases in the last decade. CONCLUSIONS. Due to the significative increase of reported cases in the last 4 decades, human fasciolosis is an emergent parasitary infective disease in humans in Peru and we need preventive and control national health programs for this zoonosis.
Start page
389
End page
396
Volume
27
Issue
4
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Gastroenterología, Hepatología Parasitología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-41949098765
PubMed ID
Source
Revista de gastroenterología del Perú : órgano oficial de la Sociedad de Gastroenterología del Perú
ISSN of the container
10225129
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