Prevalence rate and risk factors of human cystic echinococcosis: A cross-sectional, community-based, abdominal ultrasound study in rural and urban north-central Chile

• Gerardo Acosta-Jamett ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gerardo Acosta-Jamett, Felipe A. Hernández

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

  * E-mail: gerardo.acosta@uach.cl

  Affiliations Instituto de Medicina Preventiva Veterinaria, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Los Ríos region, Chile, Center for Surveillance and Evolution of Infectious Diseases, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Los Ríos region, Chile

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9645-3551

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• Felipe A. Hernández ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gerardo Acosta-Jamett, Felipe A. Hernández

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Preventiva Veterinaria, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Los Ríos region, Chile

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3250-9701

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• Natalia Castro,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Preventiva Veterinaria, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Los Ríos region, Chile

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• Francesca Tamarozzi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation WHO Collaborating Centre for the Epidemiology, Detection and Control of Cystic and Alveolar Echinococcosis, Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore Di Sanità, Rome, Italy

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• Leonardo Uchiumi,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Ramon Carrillo Hospital, Bariloche, Río Negro Province, Argentina

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5009-1639

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• Juan Carlos Salvitti,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Artémides Zatti Hospital, Viedma, Río Negro Province, Argentina

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• Michelle Cueva,

  Roles Data curation, Visualization

  Affiliation Instituto de Medicina Preventiva Veterinaria, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Los Ríos region, Chile

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9125-0181

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• Adriano Casulli

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

  Affiliations WHO Collaborating Centre for the Epidemiology, Detection and Control of Cystic and Alveolar Echinococcosis, Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore Di Sanità, Rome, Italy, European Reference Laboratory for Parasites, Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore Di Sanità, Rome, Italy

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9183-7591

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