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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Hämäläinen, S., Kantele, A., Arvonen, M., Hakala, T., Karhukorpi, J., Heikkinen, J., … Lavikainen, A. (2015). An autochthonous case of cystic echinococcosis in Finland, 2015. Eurosurveillance, 20(42). https://doi.org/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2015.20.42.30043
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