About the Authors

Piero Bonelli

Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

piero.bonelli@izs-sardegna.it

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory of Echinococcosis (CeNRE), WOAH Reference Laboratory for Echinococcosis, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, Sassari, Italy

Giovanni Stegel

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Chemical, Physical, Mathematical and Natural Sciences, University of Sassari, Sassari, Italy

Scilla Mastrandrea

Roles Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Clinic for Infectious and Tropical Diseases, University Hospital, Sassari, Italy

Gabriella Masu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory of Echinococcosis (CeNRE), WOAH Reference Laboratory for Echinococcosis, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, Sassari, Italy

Angela Peruzzu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory of Echinococcosis (CeNRE), WOAH Reference Laboratory for Echinococcosis, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, Sassari, Italy

Cinzia Santucciu

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory of Echinococcosis (CeNRE), WOAH Reference Laboratory for Echinococcosis, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, Sassari, Italy

Giovanna Masala

Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation National Reference Laboratory of Echinococcosis (CeNRE), WOAH Reference Laboratory for Echinococcosis, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sardegna, Sassari, Italy

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.