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In this article, a case of human cystic echinococcosis caused by\n                    <jats:italic>Echinococcus ortleppi<\/jats:italic>\n                    (\n                    <jats:italic>E. ortleppi<\/jats:italic>\n                    ) is reported in a 21-year-old man from Myanmar, who had traveled to Japan for vocational training. He presented to the study hospital in Tokyo after a chest radiograph revealed the presence of a giant cyst shadow in the right middle and lower lung fields. The cysts were excised, and echinococcosis was diagnosed on the basis of the pathological findings. Sequencing of a 150 base pair fragment of the mitochondrial cytochrome\n                    <jats:italic>c<\/jats:italic>\n                    oxidase subunit 1 gene in a section of cyst tissue was consistent with\n                    <jats:italic>E. ortleppi<\/jats:italic>\n                    . 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