Volume 11, Number 12—December 2005
Research
Echinococcosis in Tibetan Populations, Western Sichuan Province, China
Li Tiaoying*, Qiu Jiamin*
, Yang Wen*, Philip S. Craig†, Chen Xingwang*, Xiao Ning*‡, Akira Ito‡, Patrick Giraudoux§, Mamuti Wulamu‡, Yu Wen*, and Peter M. Schantz¶
, Yang Wen*, Philip S. Craig†, Chen Xingwang*, Xiao Ning*‡, Akira Ito‡, Patrick Giraudoux§, Mamuti Wulamu‡, Yu Wen*, and Peter M. Schantz¶
Table 3
Human prevalence of echinococcosis by patient occupation*
| Occupation | No. examined | CE |
AE |
Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| No. cases (%) | No. cases (%) | No. cases (%) | ||
| Herdsman | 1,692 | 162 (9.6) | 160 (9.5) | 322 (19.0) |
| Parttime herdsman | 79 | 8 (10.1) | 2 (2.5) | 10 (12.7) |
| Farmer | 35 | 0 | 1 (2.9) | 1 (2.9) |
| Student | 611 | 8 (1.3) | 9 (1.5) | 17 (2.8) |
| Public servant | 315 | 11 (3.5) | 9 (2.9) | 20 (6.3) |
| Employee | 69 | 3 (4.3) | 0 | 3 (4.3) |
| Businessman | 17 | 1 (5.9) | 1 (5.9) | 2 (11.8) |
| Preschooler | 101 | 3 (3.0) | 0 | 3 (3.0) |
| Illiterate child | 63 | 8 (12.7) | 1 (1.6) | 9 (14.3) |
| Others | 217 | 12 (5.5) | 15 (6.9) | 27 (12.4) |
| Total | 3,199 | 216 (6.8) | 198 (6.2) | 414 (12.9) |
*CE, cystic echinococcosis; AE, alveolar echinococcosis.
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