J. Priemer et W. Jakob, HYDATID ECHINOCOCCOSIS IN A ZOO-BORN DROM EDARY FROM THE TIERPARK BERLIN-FRIEDRICHSFELDE, GERMANY, Berliner und Munchener Tierarztliche Wochenschrift, 111(3), 1998, pp. 100-103
In Germany, the threat to human health by the small fox tapeworm (Echi
nococcus multltilocularis) has been increasingly discussed in the last
few years. On the other hand, the hydatid worm of the dog (Echinococc
us granulosus) became more and mere rare in Germany and was often decl
ared to be eradicated. This paper presents a case of hydatid infection
of the lung in an adult dromedary (Camelus dromedarius), which was bo
rn and kept all its life at Tierpark Berlin-Friedrichsfelde. Questions
connected with E. granulosus infection are discussed from an ecologic
al point of view: history, urbanisation, biology, clinical signs, pote
ntial threat to man, prophylaxis and treatment. In view of the extensi
ve and sometimes uncontrolled dog keeping in urban households it must
be stressed that careful documentation and surveillance of this life-t
hreatening zoonosis, which was the main reason for its decline in the
past, has not yet lost its importance.