SELL and Granuloma: Our findings are in agreement with previous studies on infectious agents that, like E. multilocularis, lead to granuloma formation in the liver, e.g. Leishmania, Mycobacterium and Schistosoma spp; in these models, it was shown that the hepatic granulomas had memory lymphocytes with down-regulated CD62L levels as the main infiltrating cells32–34.