Case Report: Diagnosis of vertebral alveolar echinococcosis upon next-generation sequencing in a suspected tuberculosis

IntroductionAlveolar echinococcosis (AE), caused by larval stages of Echinococcus multilocularis, is a rare zoonotic disease that mainly involves the liver. The diagnosis of extrahepatic AE is usually difficult. Here, we describe a rare case of vertebral alveolar echinococcosis with a suspected hist...

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Main Authors: Tiange Song, Shengkun Peng, Xiaoli Zhou, Li Jiang, Jie Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-09-01
Series:Frontiers in Surgery
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsurg.2022.984640/full