Barkati, Sapha; Gottstein, Bruno; Müller, Norbert; Sheitoyan-Pesant, Caroline; Metrakos, Peter; Chen, Tianyan; Garceau, Richard; Libman, Michael D; Ndao, Momar; Yansouni, Cedric P (2019). First Human Case of Metacestode Infection Caused by Versteria sp. in a Kidney Transplant Recipient. Clinical infectious diseases, 68(4), pp. 680-683. Oxford University Press 10.1093/cid/ciy602
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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.
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Journal Article (Original Article) |
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Division/Institute: |
05 Veterinary Medicine > Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology (DIP) > Institute of Parasitology 04 Faculty of Medicine > Service Sector > Institute for Infectious Diseases 05 Veterinary Medicine > Department of Infectious Diseases and Pathobiology (DIP) |
UniBE Contributor: |
Gottstein, Bruno, Müller, Norbert |
Subjects: |
600 Technology > 630 Agriculture 500 Science > 570 Life sciences; biology 600 Technology > 610 Medicine & health |
ISSN: |
1058-4838 |
Publisher: |
Oxford University Press |
Language: |
English |
Submitter: |
Bruno Gottstein |
Date Deposited: |
18 Dec 2018 13:45 |
Last Modified: |
05 Dec 2022 15:23 |
Publisher DOI: |
10.1093/cid/ciy602 |
PubMed ID: |
30212859 |
BORIS DOI: |
10.7892/boris.122742 |
URI: |
https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/122742 |
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