Fasciola hepatica juveniles interact with the host fibrinolytic system as a potential early-stage invasion mechanism

• Judit Serrat,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Laboratory of Helminth Parasites of Zoonotic Importance (ATENEA), Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Salamanca (IRNASA-CSIC), Salamanca, Spain

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• David Becerro-Recio,

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

  Affiliation Laboratory of Helminth Parasites of Zoonotic Importance (ATENEA), Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Salamanca (IRNASA-CSIC), Salamanca, Spain

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• María Torres-Valle,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Helminth Parasites of Zoonotic Importance (ATENEA), Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Salamanca (IRNASA-CSIC), Salamanca, Spain

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• Fernando Simón,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain

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• María Adela Valero,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Departamento de Parasitología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

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• María Dolores Bargues,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Departamento de Parasitología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

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• Santiago Mas-Coma,

  Roles Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Departamento de Parasitología, Facultad de Farmacia, Universidad de Valencia, Valencia, Spain, CIBER de Enfermedades Infecciosas, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain

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• Mar Siles-Lucas,

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Laboratory of Helminth Parasites of Zoonotic Importance (ATENEA), Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Salamanca (IRNASA-CSIC), Salamanca, Spain

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• Javier González-Miguel

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

  * E-mail: javier.gonzalez@irnasa.csic.es

  Affiliation Laboratory of Helminth Parasites of Zoonotic Importance (ATENEA), Institute of Natural Resources and Agrobiology of Salamanca (IRNASA-CSIC), Salamanca, Spain

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4279-4761

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