Echinococcus granulosus hydatid cyst in rural Manitoba, Canada: Case report and review of the literature
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Echinococcal infections are a rare but important disease in Canada. The parasite’s traditional endemic area includes rural, northern communities with wild canines and ungulates. There is evidence that the endemic area is enlarging. Echinococcus can cause significant morbidity, and rarely death. An 18-year-old female presented with right upper quadrant abdominal pain. Computed Tomography (CT) of the abdomen showed a 5.4 × 4 cm cyst with the presence of “water lily sign”. She showed signs of cyst leak including eosinophilia and fever. Therefore, she underwent surgical resection of her cyst with Albendazole cover and was continued post-operatively for three months. CT head, chest, and pelvis failed to identify further sites of cyst formation. She has recovered well from surgery and is no longer followed by Infectious Diseases. The annual incidence and prevalence of Echinococcus disease are very low among the Canadian population. Therefore, there is a paucity of experience with new interventional techniques. Traditional management with surgery and anti-helminthic drugs is a reasonable alternative to percutaneous drainage. Screening communities has previously been determined not to be cost effective. Screening family members with similar risk factors has not been previously documented, and treatment has historically been reserved for symptomatic individuals with the disease.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.008 | 0.010 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".