Community risk of environmental-borne cystic echinococcosis transmission in South America: Results from the multistep cross-sectional and case-control PERITAS study

• Gerardo Acosta-Jamett ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gerardo Acosta-Jamett, Francesca Tamarozzi

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

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

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• Francesca Tamarozzi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Gerardo Acosta-Jamett, Francesca Tamarozzi

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing, Conceptualization

  Affiliation Department of Infectious-Tropical Diseases and Microbiology, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy

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• Natalia Castro,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Disease Surveillance and Evolution of Infectious Diseases, Facultad de Ciencias Veterinarias, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

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• Saul J. Santivanez,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Department, Universidad Continental, Huancayo, Peru

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• Raul Enriquez Laurente,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Center for Global Health, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

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• Cristina Mazzi,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Research Unit, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar di Valpolicella, Verona, Italy

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• Cristian A. Alvarez-Rojas,

  Roles Investigation, 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, Chile

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• Adriano Casulli

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

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

  Affiliations European Union Reference Laboratory for Parasites (EURL-P), Department of Infectious Diseases Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy, WHO Collaborating Centre for the Epidemiology, Detection and Control of Cystic and Alveolar Echinococcosis (One Health), Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Rome, Italy

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

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