About the Authors

Johannes Grimm

Contributed equally to this work with: Johannes Grimm, Julian Krickl

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Julian Krickl

Contributed equally to this work with: Johannes Grimm, Julian Krickl

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

Affiliation Consultant Laboratory for Echinococcosis, Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

Annika Beck

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Juliane Nell

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Monika Bergmann

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Visualization

Affiliation Consultant Laboratory for Echinococcosis, Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

Dennis Tappe

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology

Affiliation Consultant Laboratory for Echinococcosis, Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

Beate Grüner

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Visualization

Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, University Hospital and Medical Center, Ulm, Germany

Thomas FE Barth

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Thomas.Barth@uniklinik-ulm.de (TB); kbrehm@hygiene.uni-wuerzburg.de (KB)

Affiliation Institute of Pathology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany

Klaus Brehm

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Thomas.Barth@uniklinik-ulm.de (TB); kbrehm@hygiene.uni-wuerzburg.de (KB)

Affiliation Consultant Laboratory for Echinococcosis, Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology, University of Wuerzburg, Wuerzburg, Germany

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.