Volume 9, Number 3—March 2003
Research
European Echinococcosis Registry: Human Alveolar Echinococcosis, Europe, 1982–2000
, Karine Bardonnet†, Elisabeth Renner‡, Herbert Auer§, Zbigniew Pawlowski¶, Rudolf W. Ammann‡, Dominique A. Vuitton#, Peter Kern**, and the European Echinococcosis Registry
Table 1
Number of patients with alveolar echinococcosis, Europe
| Yr of first diagnosis | Reporting country |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | Belgium | France | Germany | Great Britain | Netherlands | Switzerland | Poland | Greece | Totala | |
| Until 1980 |
8 |
0 |
23 |
30 |
0 |
0 |
43 |
0 |
0 |
104 |
| 1981–1985 |
12 |
0 |
60 |
11 |
0 |
0 |
29 |
0 |
0 |
112 |
| 1986–1990 |
11 |
0 |
80 |
17 |
0 |
0 |
17 |
2 |
0 |
127 |
| 1991–1995 |
13 |
0 |
40 |
26 |
0 |
0 |
16 |
6 |
0 |
101 |
| 1996–2000 |
10 |
3 |
32 |
48 |
1 |
1 |
13 |
6 |
1 |
115 |
| Total no. of patientsb | 54 (1) | 3 | 235 | 132(6) | 1 (1) | 1 (1) | 118 (6) | 14 | 1 | 559 |
aStatus of notification to the European Echinococcosis Registry as of August 2001.
bIncludes 15 non-autochthonous cases (in parentheses); 7 of them originated from neighboring countries, 3 from Turkey, 3 from the Newly Independent States, 1 from Kazakhstan, and 1 from Afghanistan.
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).