1. Simultaneous alveolar and cystic echinococcosis of the liver
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Dominique A. Vuitton, Yu Rong Yang, Donald P. McManus, Yunhai Wang, Brigitte Bartholomot, Philip S. Craig, Xong Zhou Liu, Akira Ito, Ningxia Medical College, WHO Collaborating Center on Prevention and Treatment of Human Echinococcosis, SERF Unit, Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC), Carcinogénèse épithéliale : facteurs prédictifs et pronostiques - UFC (EA 3181) (CEF2P / CARCINO), Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Besançon (CHRU Besançon), Xinjiang Medical University, Chinese Government, Department of Parasitology, Asahikawa Medical College, Biomedical Sciences Research Institute, University of Salford, Molecular Parasitology Laboratory, University of Queensland [Brisbane], Université de Franche-Comté ( UFC ), Carcinogénèse épithéliale : facteurs prédictifs et pronostiques - UFC ( CEF2P / CARCINO ), and Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire [Besançon] ( CHRU Besançon ) -Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté ( UBFC ) -Université de Franche-Comté ( UFC )
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Male ,Pathology ,MESH : Aged ,Alveolar echinococcosis ,MESH : Echinococcus multilocularis ,MESH: Echinococcus granulosus ,[ SDV.CAN ] Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer ,030308 mycology & parasitology ,0302 clinical medicine ,MESH : Female ,Echinococcus granulosus ,Ultrasonography ,MESH: Aged ,0303 health sciences ,MESH: Middle Aged ,biology ,MESH: Echinococcosis, Hepatic ,General Medicine ,Middle Aged ,MESH : Adult ,Echinococcosis ,MESH: China ,3. Good health ,Infectious Diseases ,Female ,Adult ,China ,Echinococcosis, Hepatic ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Adolescent ,MESH : Male ,030231 tropical medicine ,Cestoda ,Helminthiasis ,[SDV.CAN]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Cancer ,Echinococcus multilocularis ,03 medical and health sciences ,MESH : Adolescent ,medicine ,Humans ,MESH : China ,MESH : Middle Aged ,Aged ,MESH: Adolescent ,MESH: Echinococcus multilocularis ,MESH: Humans ,MESH : Echinococcus granulosus ,business.industry ,Cystic echinococcosis ,MESH : Humans ,Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health ,MESH: Adult ,biology.organism_classification ,medicine.disease ,MESH: Male ,Tropical medicine ,Parasitology ,MESH : Echinococcosis, Hepatic ,business ,MESH: Female - Abstract
International audience; Alveolar echinococcosis (AE) and cystic echinococcosis (CE), caused by infection with the larval stages of Echinococcus multilocularis and E. granulosus, respectively, are of major clinical importance. Reports of infection with AE or CE are very common, but instances of simultaneous or dual infection are rare. We report on four cases with mixed AE/CE infections in the liver, diagnosed using retrospective surgical records and active community surveys in southern Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (NHAR), PR China, a recognized hyperendemic area for echinococcosis.
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- 2006
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