Seroepidemiological Survey of Hydatid cyst by ELISA in Kordestan Province

ABSTRACT

This study was conducted to evaluate the frequency of human hydatidosis in Kurdestan province by ELISA technique. In this study the sera of 1979 individuals were collected from different area [cities and villages] of Kordestan province. The serum dilution of 1/400 was selected for ELISA test. The results indicated that 1.12% of the individuals from Kordestan province showed positive sera. The results also showed that in Kordestan 0.9% and 1.42% of the people who live in the cities and villages had positive sera respectively. In this study 1.65% of female and 0.45% of male were positive. From the obtained result we found maximum number of infected people were in the range of 30-40 years [1.59%]. According to the results obtained from this study the highest percent of infection was found in the city of Ivandarre, the reason for this difference [1.69%] is due to the fact that most of the people who are involved in animal husbendary in the province live in this city