Potential Risk Factors Associated with Human Cystic Echinococcosis: Systematic Review and Meta-analysis

• Alessia Possenti,

  Affiliations Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immunomediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy, European Reference Laboratory for Parasites (EURLP), ISS, Rome, Italy

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• Raúl Manzano-Román,

  Affiliation Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiologia de Salamanca, IRNASA-CSIC, Salamanca, Spain

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• Carlos Sánchez-Ovejero,

  Affiliation Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiologia de Salamanca, IRNASA-CSIC, Salamanca, Spain

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• Belgees Boufana,

  Affiliations Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immunomediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy, European Reference Laboratory for Parasites (EURLP), ISS, Rome, Italy, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for the epidemiology, detection and control of cystic and alveolar echinococcosis (in humans and animals), ISS, Rome, Italy

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• Giuseppe La Torre,

  Affiliation Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Public health and Infectious Diseases, Rome, Italy

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• Mar Siles-Lucas,

  Affiliation Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiologia de Salamanca, IRNASA-CSIC, Salamanca, Spain

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• Adriano Casulli

  * E-mail: adriano.casulli@iss.it

  Affiliations Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immunomediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità (ISS), Rome, Italy, European Reference Laboratory for Parasites (EURLP), ISS, Rome, Italy, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for the epidemiology, detection and control of cystic and alveolar echinococcosis (in humans and animals), ISS, Rome, Italy

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