TY - JOUR AU - Lehman, Bethany AU - Leal, Sixto AU - Procop, Gary AU - O’Connell, Elise AU - Shaik, Jahangheer AU - Nash, Theodore AU - Nutman, Thomas AU - Jones, Stephen AU - Braunthal, Stephanie AU - Shah, Shetal AU - Cruise, Michael AU - Mukhopadhyay, Sanjay AU - Banzon, Jona T1 - Disseminated Metacestode Versteria Species Infection in Woman, Pennsylvania, USA T2 - Emerging Infectious Disease journal PY - 2019 VL - 25 IS - 7 SP - 1429 SN - 1080-6059 AB - A patient in Pennsylvania, USA, with common variable immunodeficiency sought care for fever, cough, and abdominal pain. Imaging revealed lesions involving multiple organs. Liver resection demonstrated necrotizing granulomas, recognizable tegument, and calcareous corpuscles indicative of an invasive cestode infection. Sequencing revealed 98% identity to a Versteria species of cestode found in mink. KW - cestoda KW - parasite KW - agammaglobulinemia KW - Versteria KW - cestode KW - Taenia KW - tapeworm KW - parasites KW - Pennsylvania KW - metacestode KW - United States DO - 10.3201/eid2507.190223 UR - https://wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/25/7/19-0223_article ER - End of Reference