Multiorgan Echinococcus infection: Treatment of an immigrant in the United States

We discuss the clinical presentation and management of a 36-year-old woman presenting with a 12-year history of recurrent hydatid disease, a disease caused by Echinococcus granulosus and other Echinococcal species, which is rarely seen in the contiguous United States. She has had multiple procedures...

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Autores principales: Zhang, Kevin J., Schaldenbrand, Michael, Turfah, Fuad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5479945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28660127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.05.011
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description We discuss the clinical presentation and management of a 36-year-old woman presenting with a 12-year history of recurrent hydatid disease, a disease caused by Echinococcus granulosus and other Echinococcal species, which is rarely seen in the contiguous United States. She has had multiple procedures since her diagnosis in 2005 and is still closely being followed for possible disease recurrence.
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spelling pubmed-54799452017-06-28 Multiorgan Echinococcus infection: Treatment of an immigrant in the United States Zhang, Kevin J. Schaldenbrand, Michael Turfah, Fuad IDCases Case Report We discuss the clinical presentation and management of a 36-year-old woman presenting with a 12-year history of recurrent hydatid disease, a disease caused by Echinococcus granulosus and other Echinococcal species, which is rarely seen in the contiguous United States. She has had multiple procedures since her diagnosis in 2005 and is still closely being followed for possible disease recurrence. Elsevier 2017-05-29 /pmc/articles/PMC5479945/ /pubmed/28660127 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.05.011 Text en © 2017 The Authors http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Zhang, Kevin J.
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Multiorgan Echinococcus infection: Treatment of an immigrant in the United States
title Multiorgan Echinococcus infection: Treatment of an immigrant in the United States
title_full Multiorgan Echinococcus infection: Treatment of an immigrant in the United States
title_fullStr Multiorgan Echinococcus infection: Treatment of an immigrant in the United States
title_full_unstemmed Multiorgan Echinococcus infection: Treatment of an immigrant in the United States
title_short Multiorgan Echinococcus infection: Treatment of an immigrant in the United States
title_sort multiorgan echinococcus infection: treatment of an immigrant in the united states
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5479945/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28660127
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2017.05.011
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