Infection
Unmasking the mimic: vertebral alveolar echinococcosis diagnosed by metagenomic next-generation sequencing.
Tassilo Kruis, Marion Wassermann, Barbara Graf, Katharina Lührig, Peter Menzel, Rolf Schwarzer, Johannes Ziegler, Caroline Isner
Published: 202510.1007/s15010-025-02717-3
Abstract
A Siberian woman in her forties presented to a public hospital in northeastern Germany with chronic back pain and a paravertebral mass, initially misdiagnosed as spinal tuberculosis. Repeated biopsies and metagenomic next-generation sequencing (mNGS)…
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