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1. First Human Case of Metacestode Infection Caused by Versteria sp. in a Kidney Transplant Recipient.

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Barkati, Sapha, Gottstein, Bruno, Müller, Norbert, Sheitoyan-Pesant, Caroline, Metrakos, Peter, Chen, Tianyan, Garceau, Richard, Libman, Michael D, Ndao, Momar, and Yansouni, Cedric P

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*TAPEWORM infections, *IMMUNOSUPPRESSION, *KIDNEY transplantation, *TRANSPLANTATION of organs, tissues, etc., *ZOONOSES, *DISEASE complications
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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2019
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