College of Medicine

Echinococcus granulosus is one major species in medical and public health importance which causes hydatidosis.Hydatid disease is a chronic, cyst-forming, zoonotic disease of human and complex multicellular pathogen with multiantigens microorganism that,despite being under constant barrage by the immune system, are able to modulate antibodies immune responses and persist and flourish in humans. Hydatid cysts develop in internal organs(mainly liver and lungs) of humans as unilocular fluid-filled bladders.