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ABSTRACT

Hydatidosis/echinococcosis, cysticercosis and trichinellosis are important meat-borne parasitic diseases caused by Echinococcus spp., Taenia spp. and Trichinella spp. respectively. These diseases not only have the public health significance but also cause great financial losses in food animals. This study was conducted to know the exact burden of these diseases in human population of Maharashtra state from April, 2011 to December, 2020. For hydatidosis and cysticercosis, data was collected in a case record form from human patients, veterinary hospitals, slaughter house workers and animal handlers. For trichinellosis, data was collected from pork consumers and workers from pig slaughter unit. Sero-prevalence study was conducted by collecting blood samples from different high-risk groups of human population after approval from institutional biosafety committee and human ethical committee. A total of 1113, 1139 and 622 human sera samples were tested for hydatidosis, cysticercosis and trichinellosis, respectively by ELISA kit. The results of estimation of overall seroepidemiological study revealed that 119 (10.69%), 26 (2.28%) and 4 (0.64%) human sera samples were found to be positive for hydatidosis, cysticercosis and trichinellosis, respectively. However, based on the data collection and analysis in ten years period for hydatidosis, cysticercosis and trichinellosis from government run Lokmanya Tilak Municipal General Hospital and Lokmanya Tilak Municipal Medical College, Sion, Mumbai and Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical College and Seth King Edward Memorial Hospital, Parel, Mumbai from the surgical ward and from different research articles published, it is reported that 137 positive cases were confirmed positive for hydatidosis out of which 105 were successfully operated. Nineteen positive cases were confirmed for cysticercosis out of which 6 were successfully operated. The analysis of data from different risk groups showed the people suffering were non-vegetarians, butchers, animal handlers and having an age group of 25-55 years. The results of the present study indicated these diseases are prevalent in human population in study areas which attracts serious attention from veterinary and public health authority to reduce economic burden and in designing appropriate strategy for prevention and control of these diseases.

Keywords: Cysticercosis, Data collection, ELISA, Hydatidosis, Humans, Trichinellosis