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Volume 26, Number 8—August 2020
Dispatch

Disseminated Echinococcus multilocularis Infection without Liver Involvement in Child, Canada, 2018

Joanna Joyce1, Xiao-Ou He1, Katya Rozovsky1, Camelia Stefanovici1, and Sergio Fanella1Comments to Author 
Author affiliations: Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada (J. Joyce); University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada (X.-O. He, K. Rozovsky, C. Stefanovici, S. Fanella)

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Kidney core biopsy of a child with disseminated Echinococcus multilocularis infection without liver involvement, Canada, 2018. Shown are folded laminated membrane (short black arrows) encircling variable-sized cystic structures (black circles) containing calcified and necrotic debris and dense periparasitic fibrosis (long black arrows), in a background of chronic inflammation and fibrosis. No residual normal kidney parenchyma was seen (hematoxylin and eosin stain, original magnification × 40). I

Figure 2. Kidney core biopsy of a child with disseminated Echinococcus multilocularis infection without liver involvement, Canada, 2018. Shown are folded laminated membrane (short black arrows) encircling variable-sized cystic structures (black circles) containing calcified and necrotic debris and dense periparasitic fibrosis (long black arrows), in a background of chronic inflammation and fibrosis. No residual normal kidney parenchyma was seen (hematoxylin and eosin stain, original magnification × 40). Inset at lower right shows laminar membrane, 18–19.4 μm in thickness in a background of fibrosis (Masson trichrome, original magnification ×40). Insert at upper left shows scolex attached to the paraffin edge of the block (original magnification ×40).

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1All authors contributed equally to the preparation of this article.

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