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An autochthonous case of cystic echinococcosis in Finland, 2015
- Sari Hämäläinen1 , Anu Kantele2,3 , Miika Arvonen4 , Tapio Hakala5 , Jari Karhukorpi6 , Jukka Heikkinen7 , Ensio Berg8 , Kari Vanamo9 , Erja Tyrväinen10 , Tarja Heiskanen-Kosma4 , Antti Oksanen11 , Antti Lavikainen12
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View Affiliations Hide AffiliationsAffiliations: 1 Department of Medicine, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland 2 Inflammation Center, Clinic of Infectious Diseases, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland 3 Unit of Infectious Diseases, Karolinska Institutet, Solna, Sweden 4 Department of Pediatrics, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland 5 Department of Surgery, North Karelia Central Hospital, Joensuu, Finland 6 Eastern Finland Laboratory Centre Joint Authority Enterprise (ISLAB), Joensuu District Laboratory, Joensuu, Finland 7 Department of Internal Medicine, North Karelia Central Hospital, Joensuu, Finland 8 Heart Center, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland 9 Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland 10 Department of Clinical Radiology, Kuopio University Hospital, Kuopio, Finland 11 Finnish Food Safety Authority Evira/FINPAR, Oulu, Finland 12 Department of Bacteriology and Immunology/Immunobiology Program/FINPAR, Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, FinlandAntti Lavikainenantti.lavikainen helsinki.fi
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Citation style for this article: Hämäläinen Sari, Kantele Anu, Arvonen Miika, Hakala Tapio, Karhukorpi Jari, Heikkinen Jukka, Berg Ensio, Vanamo Kari, Tyrväinen Erja, Heiskanen-Kosma Tarja, Oksanen Antti, Lavikainen Antti. An autochthonous case of cystic echinococcosis in Finland, 2015. Euro Surveill. 2015;20(42):pii=30043. https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.42.30043 Received: 07 Oct 2015; Accepted: 20 Oct 2015
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Abstract
We report a case of pulmonary cystic echinococcosis in a child from eastern Finland with no history of travelling abroad. The cyst was surgically removed and the organism molecularly identified as Echinococcus canadensis genotype G10. This parasite is maintained in eastern Finland in a sylvatic life cycle involving wolves and moose; in the present case, the infection was presumably transmitted by hunting dogs.

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