1. First Case of Human Primary Vertebral Cystic Echinococcosis Due to Echinococcus Ortleppi
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S. Mahy, Lionel Piroth, Frédéric Dalle, Frédéric Grenouillet, Laurent Martin, Marie-Hélène Aubriot-Lorton, Laurence Millon, S. Valot, Jenny Knapp, Bénédicte Burlet, Louise Basmaciyan, Marc Sautour, Mickael Grelat, Mathieu Blot, Selim Ramla, Laboratoire de parasitologie mycologie (CHU de Dijon), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Dijon - Hôpital François Mitterrand (CHU Dijon), Service de Pathologie [CHU de Dijon], Département d'infectiologie (CHU de Dijon), Service de neurochirurgie [CHU de Dijon], Laboratoire Chrono-environnement - CNRS - UBFC (UMR 6249) (LCE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Franche-Comté (UFC), and Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)-Université Bourgogne Franche-Comté [COMUE] (UBFC)
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0301 basic medicine ,Pathology ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,Cystic echinococcosis ,Zoonosis ,lcsh:R ,Echinococcus ortleppi ,lcsh:Medicine ,Case Report ,General Medicine ,030108 mycology & parasitology ,medicine.disease ,3. Good health ,03 medical and health sciences ,vertebral cystic echinococcosis ,[SDV.IMM]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Immunology ,Medicine ,human ,business - Abstract
IF 5.583 (2017); International audience; Cystic echinococcosis (CE) is a cosmopolitan parasitic zoonosis affecting more than one million people worldwide. In humans, primary bone CE is rare and involvement of E. ortleppi is very uncommon. We report here the first case of primary vertebral cystic echinococcosis due to E. ortleppi in Burgundy, France.
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- 2018
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