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Volume 20, Number 12—December 2014
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Echinococcus ortleppi Infections in Humans and Cattle, France

Frédéric Grenouillet1Comments to Author , Gérald Umhang1, Francine Arbez-Gindre, Georges Mantion, Eric Delabrousse, Laurence Millon, and Franck Boué
Author affiliations: World Health Organization Collaborating Center for Prevention and Treatment of Human Echinococcosis and French National Reference Center on Alveolar Echinococcosis, Besançon, France (F. Grenouillet, F. Arbez-Gindre, G. Mantion, E. Delabrousse, L. Millon); Chrono-Environnement Unité Mixte de Recherche 6249, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique et Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon (F. Grenouillet, L. Millon); Agence Nationale de Sécurité Sanitaire de l'Alimentation National Reference Laboratory for Echinococcus spp., Malzéville, France (G. Umhang, F. Boué)

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Results of testing in a 63-year-old man from the Jura département (eastern France), who was diagnosed with infection with Echinococcus ortleppi larval tapeworms in 2001. A) Abdominal computed tomography scan; B) magnetic resonance imaging; and C) macroscopic morphologic examination of operative specimen. All show lesions with a detached endocyst and calcified matrix; scale bar in panel C indicates 1 cm. D) Microscopic examination shows evidence of protoscoleces in the matrix (hematoxylin and eo

Figure 1. Results of testing in a 63-year-old man from the Jura département (eastern France), who was diagnosed with infection with Echinococcus ortleppi larval tapeworms in 2001. A) Abdominal computed tomography scan; B) magnetic resonance imaging; and C) macroscopic morphologic examination of operative specimen. All show lesions with a detached endocyst and calcified matrix; scale bar in panel C indicates 1 cm. D) Microscopic examination shows evidence of protoscoleces in the matrix (hematoxylin and eosin stain; scale bar indicates 50 µm).

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1These authors contributed equally to this article.

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