Ultrasound screening for cystic echinococcosis of school-age children in endemic areas of Chile: A pilot cross-sectional study towards integration in the Regional Program for the Elimination of Cystic Echinococcosis 2020–2029

• Cristian A. Alvarez Rojas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Escuela de Medicina Veterinaria, Facultad de Agronomía y Sistemas Naturales, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas y Facultad de Medicina, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile, Chile

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• Tommaso Manciulli,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

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• Francesca Tamarozzi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Francesca Tamarozzi, Michele Spinicci

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

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

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

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

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• Michele Spinicci

  Contributed equally to this work with: Francesca Tamarozzi, Michele Spinicci

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

  Affiliation Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy

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