Review on Epidemiology and Public Health Significance of Hydatidosis

Table 1

Summary of the characteristics of Echinococcus Species.

Character	Echinococcus granulosus	Echinococcus multilocularis	Echinococcus vogeli	Echinococcus oligarthus
Geographic distribution	Cosmopolitan	Central and North Eurasia, Northern North America	Central and South America	Central and South America
Definitive hosts	Primarily dogs and other canids	Primarily foxes, also other canids and cats	Wild felids	Bush dog
Intermediate and aberrant hosts	Primarily ungulates also marsupials and primates, humans	Primarily arvicola rodents, also other small mammals, humans	Rodents, agoutis, paca, spiny rats, humans	Primarily agoutis, also other rodents, humans
Nature of cyst	Unilocular, endogenous proliferation, no in filtration or metastasis	Multivesicular, endogenous proliferation, metastasis	Polycystic, exogenous and endogenous proliferation, no metastasis	Polycystic, endogenous and exogenous proliferation, no infiltration or metastasis
Location of cyst	Visceral, primarily liver and lungs	Visceral, primarily liver	Peripheral, primarily muscle	Visceral, primarily liver

Source. [1].