About the Authors

Tommaso Manciulli

Contributed equally to this work with: Tommaso Manciulli, Renata Shkjezi

Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Clinical, Surgical, Diagnostic and Pediatric Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Florence, Florence, Italy

Renata Shkjezi

Contributed equally to this work with: Tommaso Manciulli, Renata Shkjezi

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Cabrini ONLUS Foundation, Sant’Angelo Lodigiano, Italy

Valbona Gjoni

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision

Affiliation Institute of Public Health, Tirana, Albania

Joachim Richter

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Institute of International Health, Charité Centre for Global Health, Charité University Medicine, Corporate Member of Free and Humboldt University and Berlin Institute of Health, Berlin, Germany, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Laura Lapini

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Unit of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Ospedale San Donato, Arezzo, Italy

Agnese Colpani

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Andrea De Vito

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Medicine, Surgery and Pharmacy, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Gian Luca D’Alessandro

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical, Surgical, Diagnostic and Pediatric Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Armanda Leka

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Clinical, Surgical, Diagnostic and Pediatric Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Argjend Kubolli

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Faculty of Farmacy; Catholic University “Our Lady of Good Counsel”, Tirana, Albania

Armida Agastra

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Faculty of Farmacy; Catholic University “Our Lady of Good Counsel”, Tirana, Albania

Gjetjon Gjonaj

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Faculty of Farmacy; Catholic University “Our Lady of Good Counsel”, Tirana, Albania

Massimo Fabiani

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Unit of Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Mathematical Modelling. Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Bruno Zappacosta

Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Pharmacological Sciences, Faculty of Farmacy; Catholic University “Our Lady of Good Counsel”, Tirana, Albania

Enrico Brunetti

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Clinical, Surgical, Diagnostic and Pediatric Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy, Unit of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, San Matteo Hospital Foundation, Pavia, Italy

Adriano Casulli

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

adriano.casulli@iss.it

Affiliations WHO Collaborating Centre for the Epidemiology, Detection and Control of Cystic and Alveolar Echinococcosis (One Health), Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy, European Union Reference Laboratory for Parasites (EURL-P; food safety), Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.