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- Title
First Human Case of Metacestode Infection Caused by Versteria sp. in a Kidney Transplant Recipient.
- Authors
Barkati, Sapha; Gottstein, Bruno; Müller, Norbert; Sheitoyan-Pesant, Caroline; Metrakos, Peter; Chen, Tianyan; Garceau, Richard; Libman, Michael D; Ndao, Momar; Yansouni, Cedric P
- Abstract
Cestodes are emerging agents of severe opportunistic infections among immunocompromised patients. We describe the first case of human infection, with the recently-proposed genus Versteria causing an invasive, tumor-like hepatic infection with regional and distant extension in a 53-year-old female kidney transplant recipient from Atlantic Canada.
- Subjects
CANADA; TAPEWORM infections; IMMUNOSUPPRESSION; KIDNEY transplantation; TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc.; ZOONOSES; DISEASE complications
- Publication
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2019, Vol 68, Issue 4, p680
- ISSN
1058-4838
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/cid/ciy602