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Journal Article
First description of Echinococcus ortleppi infection in China
2019
Overview
Background
Echinococcosis has led to considerable social and economic losses in China, particularly in the endemic communities of the eastern Tibetan Plateau. In China, human cases of
Echinococcus granulosus
(
sensu stricto
),
E. canadensis
and
E. multilocularis
infections have been described, but no
E. ortleppi
(G5) infections in humans or animals have been reported.
Results
A case of
E. ortleppi
infection in a human from Guangxi, which is a non-endemic echinococcosis area in China, is described. A 17 × 12 × 20 cm (diameter) cyst was observed in the liver of the patient, and
Echinococcus
larvae were collected from the cyst. A morphological examination indicated that the larvae were
E. ortleppi
, and amplification and analysis of the nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide hydrogenase dehydrogenase subunit 1 (
nad
1) and cytochrome
c
oxidase subunit 1 (
cox
1) genes showed that the larvae had 99–100% homology with the corresponding
E. ortleppi
sequences on GenBank.
Conclusions
To our knowledge, this report describes the first identification of a human
E. ortleppi
infection in China. Our data broaden the geographical distribution of this rarely reported species of
Echinococcus
.
Publisher
BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd,BMC
Subject
/ Aged
/ Animals
/ Biomedical and Life Sciences
/ China
/ Echinococcosis - diagnostic imaging
/ Echinococcus - isolation & purification
/ Electron Transport Complex IV - genetics
/ Genes
/ Helminth Proteins - genetics
/ Human
/ Humans
/ Hydatid
/ Liver
/ Male
/ NADH Dehydrogenase - genetics
/ Oxidases
/ patients
/ Purines
/ Veterinary Medicine/Veterinary Science
/ Virology
