Primary cerebral cystic echinococcosis in a child from Roman countryside: Source attribution and scoping review of cases from the literature

• Adriano Casulli ,

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

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

  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 Union 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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• Stefania Pane,

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

  Affiliation Unit of Microbiomics, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

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• Franco Randi,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Neurosurgery Unit, IRCCS Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy

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• Paola Scaramozzino,

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

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana “M. Aleandri”, Epidemiology Unit, Rome, Italy

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• Andrea Carvelli,

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

  Affiliation Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Lazio e della Toscana “M. Aleandri”, Epidemiology Unit, Rome, Italy

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• Carlo Efisio Marras,

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

  Affiliation Neurosurgery Unit, IRCCS Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy

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• Andrea Carai,

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

  Affiliation Neurosurgery Unit, IRCCS Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, Rome, Italy

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• Azzurra Santoro,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, 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 Union Reference Laboratory for Parasites, Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

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• Federica Santolamazza,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft, 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 Union Reference Laboratory for Parasites, Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

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• Francesca Tamarozzi,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Infectious-Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, WHO Collaborating centre on Strongyloidiasis and other Neglected Tropical Diseases, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy

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• Lorenza Putignani

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Unit of Microbiomics; Research Unit of Human Microbiome, Bambino Gesù Children’s Hospital, IRCCS, Rome, Italy

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