First Human Case of Metacestode Infection Caused by Versteria sp. in a Kidney Transplant Recipient. (13th September 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Barkati, Sapha; Gottstein, Bruno; Müller, Norbert; Sheitoyan-Pesant, Caroline; Metrakos, Peter; Chen, Tianyan; Garceau, Richard; Libman, Michael D; Ndao, Momar; Yansouni, Cedric P
• Is Part Of: Clinical infectious diseases. Volume 68:Number 4(2019)
• Page Start: 680
• Page End: 683
• Publication Date: 2018-09-13
• Subjects: metacestode infection -- Versteria -- kidney transplant recipient -- immunosuppression -- zoonosis; Communicable diseases -- Periodicals; 616.905
• DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciy602
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1058-4838

Abstract

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.