Cystic echinococcosis in unaccompanied minor refugees from Afghanistan and the Middle East to Germany, July 2016 through June 2017

• DOI: 10.1007/s10654-019-00492-8
• Publication Date: 2019-02-09T01:07:27Z
• Authors: Joachim Richter; Lars Esmann; Andreas K. Lindner; Isabel Trebesch; Gabriela Equihua-...; Michaela Niebank; Susanne Georgi; Dirk Schürmann; Frieder Pfäfflin; Miralem Pasić; Maximilian Gertler
• Keywords: Cystic echinococcosis; Minor (academic); Hydatid cyst

Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is not covered by current refugee screening protocols. After we had detected CE among several refugees attending our clinic from Afghanistan and the Middle East, serological examinations for CE were performed for apparently healthy unaccompanied minor refugees from these regions.