Molecular diagnosis of polycystic echinococcosis due to Echinococcus vogeli in a Paraguayan immigrant in Argentina.

Frédéric Grenouillet (1, 2) , B. Frider , J. Alvarez Rodriguez , M. Amante , M. L. Pestalardo , A. Cazorla , S. Bresson-Hadni (1) , Laurence Millon (1, 2)

1 LCE - Laboratoire Chrono-environnement (UMR 6249)
2 Service de parasitologie et mycologie [CHRU de Besançon]

Polycystic echinococcosis due to Echinococcus vogeli is a rare parasitic infection that occurs in rural areas of Central and South America. Only molecular identification performed on formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded liver tissue samples gave an unequivocal diagnosis of this disease in a Paraguayan immigrant in Argentina.

Domaines: Mycologie

Frédéric Grenouillet, B. Frider, J. Alvarez Rodriguez, M. Amante, M. L. Pestalardo, et al.. Molecular diagnosis of polycystic echinococcosis due to Echinococcus vogeli in a Paraguayan immigrant in Argentina.. Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2013, 51 (9), pp.3151-3. ⟨10.1128/JCM.00871-13⟩. ⟨hal-01061549⟩