Molecular Confirmation of Human Alveolar Echinococcosis in Poland
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Molecular confirmation of human alveolar echinococcosis in Poland.
Infections of humans with Echinococcus multilocularis, the causative agent of alveolar echinococcosis (AE), a zoonosis, have been described with increasing frequency in Poland since 1994. In the attempt to verify these reports, we analyzed specimens obtained from a representative group of Polish patients. Liver lesions in patients with AE that was diagnosed on the basis of results of histologic...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2003
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/378296