Alveolar echinococcosis as a cause of vertebral osteomyelitis and soft tissue infection with recurrent cutaneous fistula formation

Affiliations

• ¹ University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, Department I of Internal Medicine, Cologne, Germany. Electronic address: [email protected].
• ² University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, Department I of Internal Medicine, Cologne, Germany; Institute for Infection Control Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany.
• ³ University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Cologne, Germany.
• ⁴ University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, Institute of Pathology, Cologne, Germany.
• ⁵ University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, Department I of Internal Medicine, Cologne, Germany; German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Bonn-Cologne, Cologne, Germany; University of Cologne, Centre for Molecular Medicine Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ⁶ University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, Department I of Internal Medicine, Cologne, Germany; German Centre for Infection Research (DZIF), partner site Bonn-Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ⁷ University of Cologne, Faculty of Medicine, University Hospital Cologne, Department I of Internal Medicine, Cologne, Germany.