Volume 9, Number 3—March 2003
Research
European Echinococcosis Registry: Human Alveolar Echinococcosis, Europe, 1982–2000
Petra Kern*
, Karine Bardonnet†, Elisabeth Renner‡, Herbert Auer§, Zbigniew Pawlowski¶, Rudolf W. Ammann‡, Dominique A. Vuitton#, Peter Kern**, and the European Echinococcosis Registry
, Karine Bardonnet†, Elisabeth Renner‡, Herbert Auer§, Zbigniew Pawlowski¶, Rudolf W. Ammann‡, Dominique A. Vuitton#, Peter Kern**, and the European Echinococcosis RegistryTable 2
Possible exposure risks assessed for 210 patients with alveolar echinococcosis
| Occupation | N (%) | Activity in agriculture, gardening, forestry, hunting |
Ownership of dogs, cats, or both |
|||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yes | No | Missing | Yes | No | Missing | |||
| Farmers |
46 (21.9) |
46 |
0 |
0 |
39 |
2 |
5 |
|
| Nonfarmersa |
119 (56.7) |
55 |
56 |
8 |
80 |
13 |
26 |
|
| Occupation not specified,
including unemployed and pensioners |
45 (21.4) |
28 |
13 |
4 |
29 |
6 |
10 |
|
| Total | 210 (100.0) | 129 | 69 | 12 | 148 | 21 | 41 | |
aFor example, tailors, hairdressers, cooks, nurses, drivers, teachers, students, and housewives.
1The European Echinococcosis Registry (EurEchinoReg) is a surveillance network for human alveolar echinococcosis coordinated by D.A. Vuitton (France) and P. Kern (Germany). Registration of human cases is organized by H. Auer (Austria), Y. Carlier (Belgium), L. Kolarova (Czech Republic), K. Bardonnet (France), P. Kern (Germany), P.S. Craig (Great Britain), I. Prousalidis (Greece), A. Siracusano (Italy), J. van der Giessen (Netherlands), Z. Pawlowski (Poland), E. Renner, R.W. Ammann (Switzerland), and N. Altintas (Turkey).
