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- Title
Boiling sheep liver or lung for 30 minutes is necessary and sufficient to kill Echinococcus granulosus protoscoleces in hydatid cysts.
- Authors
Jun Li; Chuanchuan Wu; Hui Wang; Huanyuan Liu; Vuitton, Dominique A.; Hao Wen; Wenbao Zhang
- Abstract
Proper disposal of carcasses and offal after home slaughter is difficult in poor and remote communities and therefore dogs readily have access to hydatid cysts containing offal from livestock, thus completing the parasite cycle of Echinococcus granulosus and putting communities at risk of cystic echinococcosis. Boiling livers and lungs which contain hydatid cysts could be a simple, efficient and energy- and time-saving way to kill the infectious protoscoleces. The aim of this study was to provide precise practical recommendations to livestock owners. Our results show that boiling the whole sheep liver and/or lung, with single or multiple hydatid cysts, for 30 min is necessary and sufficient to kill E. granulosus protoscoleces in hydatid cysts. Advertising on this simple rule in at-risk communities would be an efficient and cheap complement to other veterinary public health operations to control cystic echinococcosis.
- Subjects
CYSTS (Pathology); ECHINOCOCCUS granulosus; ECHINOCOCCOSIS; DOG diseases; LIVESTOCK diseases
- Publication
Parasite (1252607X), 2014, Vol 21, p1
- ISSN
1252-607X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1051/parasite/2014064