About the Authors

Christine M. Budke

Contributed equally to this work with: Christine M. Budke, Adriano Casulli, Peter Kern, Dominique A. Vuitton

CBudke@cvm.tamu.edu

Affiliation Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America

Adriano Casulli

Contributed equally to this work with: Christine M. Budke, Adriano Casulli, Peter Kern, Dominique A. Vuitton

Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for the epidemiology, detection and control of cystic and alveolar echinococcosis (in humans and animals); European Reference Laboratory for Parasites; Istituto Superiore di Sanita’, Rome, Italy

Peter Kern

Contributed equally to this work with: Christine M. Budke, Adriano Casulli, Peter Kern, Dominique A. Vuitton

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Dominique A. Vuitton

Contributed equally to this work with: Christine M. Budke, Adriano Casulli, Peter Kern, Dominique A. Vuitton

Affiliation WHO-Collaborating Centre on Prevention and Treatment of Human Echinococcosis, and French National Reference Centre for Echinococcoses; University Bourgogne Franche-Comté and University Hospital; Besançon, France

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.