ABSTRACT
This paper describes five additional Brazilian human cases of polycystic hydatid disease due to Echinococcus vogeli, reviews the previous cases reported in Brazil, including one report of E. oligarthus (20 in total), and some epidemiological aspects of this disease which is no longer a curiosity but rather a problem that is not medically easy to handle. Its presence should be expected in any rural area of the New World where humans have not eliminated wild felids/canids, bush dogs, pacas, agoutis and other wild rodents.
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Humans , Animals , Male , Adult , Middle Aged , Female , Echinococcosis, Hepatic/pathology , Animals, Wild , Brazil , Disease Vectors , Echinococcosis, Hepatic/surgery , Echinococcosis, Hepatic/parasitology , Echinococcosis, Hepatic/transmission , Fatal Outcome , Liver/surgery , Liver/parasitology , Liver/pathologyABSTRACT
Revisamos as posiçöes taxonômicas de três espécies de simulídeos da Amazônia, Simulium guianense Wise, S. oyapockense Flock & Abonnenc e S. yarzabali Ramirez Perez. Sinonimizamos S. cuasisanguineum Ramires Perez, Yarzabal & Peterson com S. oyapockense, revalidamos S. yarzabali que estava em sinonímia com S. incrustatum. Discutimos os papéis destas três espécies na transmissäo de oncocercose e mansonelose humana na Amazônia