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

Clin Infect Dis. 2019 Feb 1;68(4):680-683. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciy602.

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.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Canada
  • Cestoda / isolation & purification*
  • Cestode Infections / diagnosis*
  • Cestode Infections / pathology*
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Immunocompromised Host
  • Kidney Transplantation*
  • Liver Diseases, Parasitic / diagnosis*
  • Liver Diseases, Parasitic / pathology*
  • Middle Aged
  • Transplant Recipients*