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Demographic features of 42 patients hospitalized in Edmonton, Alberta with echinococcal disease 1991–2001 |
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| Definite/Probable (N = 22) |
Possible (N = 20) |
Total (N = 42) |
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| Male |
5 (23%) |
11 (55%) |
16 (38%) |
| Female |
17 (77%) |
9 (45%) |
26 (62%) |
| Born in Canada |
14 (64%) |
14 (70%) |
28 (67%) |
| Foreign born* |
4 (18%) |
2 (10%) |
6 (14%) |
| Place of birth unknown |
4 (18%) |
4 (20%) |
8 (19%) |
| Edmonton residence |
6 (27%) |
6 (30%) |
12 (29%) |
| NWT residence |
9 (41%) |
8 (40%) |
17 (40%) |
| Rural Alberta residence |
7 (32%) |
6 (30%) |
13 (31%) |
| Mean age (years) |
32 ± 16 |
54 ± 25 |
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| Pulmonary disease |
9 (40%) |
2 (10%) |
11(26%) |
| Hepatic disease |
12 (55 %) |
16 (80%) |
28 (67%) |
| Spleen /kidney |
0 |
2 (10%) |
2 (5%) |
| Cardiac |
1 (5%) |
0 |
1 (2%) |
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*Patients were born in Lebanon, Ukraine, Iraq, Paraguay, Poland, or Yugoslavia | |||
Somily et al. BMC Infectious Diseases 2005 5:34 doi:10.1186/1471-2334-5-34 |
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