Second reported case of multilocular hydatid disease in Iraq

الملخص EN

Hydatid disease is an important zoonotic disease with a worldwide distribution.

In the Middle East, as well as in some other parts of the world, it has always been a serious economic and public health problem.

The disease is endemic and enzootic in Iraq.

In Iraq, the disease is caused by Echinococcus granulosus but a multilocular hydatid cyst of E.

multilocularis has been recovered from the liver of a woman in Erbil, North Iraq.

This paper documents the second case of hydatiddisease caused by E.

multilocularis, this time reported in Basrah, Southern Iraq.