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

Clinical Infectious Diseases : an Official Publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America
Sapha BarkatiCedric P Yansouni

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.

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