First Human Case of Metacestode Infection Caused by Versteria sp. in a Kidney Transplant Recipient.
case_report · Level V
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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.
Medical subject headings
- Cestoda
- Cestode Infections
- Kidney Transplantation
- Liver Diseases, Parasitic
- Transplant Recipients