Objective: To study the risk factors of human cystic echinococcosis (CE) in Hobukesar Mongolian Autonomous County of Xinjiang (HMACX) and to discuss the related strategies for prevention and control.
Methods: A randomized sampling method was used to screen local residents for human CE in HMACX. CE related risk factors including ethnicity, age, sex, occupation and personal status on hygiene etc. were analyzed under multi-factor logistic regression.
Results: The prevalence rates of CE and alveolar echinococcosis (AE) were 3.7% (23/627) and 0.16% (1/627) respectively, with the seropositive rate as 12.4% (76/613). The main risk factors that significantly associated with CE were age (OR = 7.6, 95%CI: 2.481 - 23.579) and slaughtering livestock in the households (OR = 3.2, 95%CI: 1.297 - 7.809). Herdsmen had the highest prevalence of CE in all of the occupations in this study.
Conclusion: HMACX had been a highly endemic area for human CE, with age and family slaughtering-livestock-behavior appeared to be the main possible risk factors.