Volume 19, Number 3—March 2013
Dispatch
Unexpected Increase of Alveolar Echincoccosis, Austria, 2011
Renate Schneider, Horst Aspöck, and Herbert Auer
Table
Incidences of alveolar echinococcosis, Austria, 1991–2011
| Variable | Observation period |
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|---|---|---|---|
| 1991–2000 | 2001−2010 | 2011 | |
| Location, no. patients (cases/100,000 population/year) | |||
| Austria, n = 8,217,280 residents* | 24 (0.029) | 28 (0.034) | 13 (0.158) |
| Tyrol Province, n = 710,048 residents* | 12 (0.17) | 5 (0.07) | 4 (0.56) |
| Vorarlberg Province, n = 372,000 residents* | 3 (0.08) | 12 (0.32) | 7 (1.9) |
| Patient characteristics | |||
| Average age (range), y | 50.5 (7–78) | 56.5 (37–80) | 68.6 (45–90) |
| Sex, no. (%) | |||
| F | 12 (50) | 10 (36) | 6 (46) |
| M | 12 (50) | 18 (64) | 7 (54) |
| Asymptomatic, no. (%) | 10 (42) | 11 (39) | 5 (38) |
*Census 2011.
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