A case for adoption of continuous albendazole treatment regimen for human echinococcal infections

• Francesca Tamarozzi ,

  * E-mail: francesca.tamarozzi@sacrocuore.it

  Affiliation Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Department of Infectious-Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, Negrar, Verona, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0478-3914

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• John Horton,

  Affiliation Tropical Projects, Hitchin, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7047-5106

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• Marin Muhtarov,

  Affiliation Multi-Profile Hospital for Active Treatment “Kardzhali”, Gastroenterology Ward, Khardzhali, Bulgaria

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9426-1791

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• Michael Ramharter,

  Affiliation Department of Tropical Medicine, Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Department of Medicine, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Hamburg, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9259-1885

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• Mar Siles-Lucas,

  Affiliation Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiología de Salamanca (IRNASA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Parasitology Group, Salamanca, Spain

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• Beate Gruener,

  Affiliation Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6669-3741

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• Dominique A. Vuitton,

  Affiliation French National Reference Center for Echinococcosis, Besançon University Hospital, University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, France

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0043-3896

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• Solange Bresson-Hadni,

  Affiliations French National Reference Center for Echinococcosis, Besançon University Hospital, University Bourgogne Franche-Comté, Besançon, France, Hepato-Gastroenterology and Tropical Medicine Units, University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland

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• Tommaso Manciulli,

  Affiliations Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) San Matteo Hospital Fundation–Unit of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Pavia, Italy, Department of Clinical, Surgical, Diagnostic and Pediatric Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6846-8000

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• Enrico Brunetti

  Affiliations Istituto di Ricovero e Cura a Carattere Scientifico (IRCCS) San Matteo Hospital Fundation–Unit of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, Pavia, Italy, Department of Clinical, Surgical, Diagnostic and Pediatric Sciences, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

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