Volume 15, Number 12—December 2009

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Echinococcus vogeli Infection in a Hunter, French Guiana

Jenny Knapp¹, Mircea Chirica, Christine Simonnet, Frederic Grenouillet, Jean-Mathieu Bart, Yasuhito Sako, Sonoyo Itoh, Minoru Nakao, Akira Ito¹, and Laurence Millon¹ 

Author affiliations: Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France (J. Knapp, F. Grenouillet, J.-M. Bart, L. Millon); Asahikawa Medical College, Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan (J. Knapp, Y. Sako, S. Itoh, M. Nakao, A. Ito); Saint-Louis Hospital, Paris, France (M. Chirica); Pasteur Institute of French Guiana, Cayenne, French Guiana (C. Simonnet); World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Prevention and Treatment of Human Echinococcosis, Besançon (J. Knapp, F. Grenouillet, L. Millon)

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Figure 2. Large (A) and small (B) hooks from Echinococcus vogeli protoscoleces in the liver lesion of a 72-year-old man from French Guiana. Scale bars = 10 μm.

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¹These authors contributed equally to this article.

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