Understanding the trends, clustering, and risk factors of pinworm infection in preschool settings: A repeated cross-sectional multi-center study between 2019 and 2024

• Fanzhen Mao ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fanzhen Mao, Xuecheng Li

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations School of Public Health, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety and Emergency Prevention and Control Technology of Higher Education Institutions in Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Parasitic Disease Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory on Parasite and Vector Control Technology, Wuxi, China

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• Xuecheng Li ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Fanzhen Mao, Xuecheng Li

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety and Emergency Prevention and Control Technology of Higher Education Institutions in Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

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• Sheng Ye,

  Roles Formal analysis, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation School of Public Health, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety and Emergency Prevention and Control Technology of Higher Education Institutions in Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China

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• Feng Tang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Parasitic Disease Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory on Parasite and Vector Control Technology, Wuxi, China

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• Bixian Ni,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Parasitic Disease Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory on Parasite and Vector Control Technology, Wuxi, China

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• Qiang Zhang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Parasitic Disease Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory on Parasite and Vector Control Technology, Wuxi, China

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• Jiayao Zhang,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Parasitic Disease Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory on Parasite and Vector Control Technology, Wuxi, China

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• Yaobao Liu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yaobao0721@163.com (YBL); you.li@njmu.edu.cn (YL); caojuncn@hotmail.com (JC)

  Affiliations School of Public Health, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety and Emergency Prevention and Control Technology of Higher Education Institutions in Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Parasitic Disease Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory on Parasite and Vector Control Technology, Wuxi, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9616-8948

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• You Li ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: yaobao0721@163.com (YBL); you.li@njmu.edu.cn (YL); caojuncn@hotmail.com (JC)

  Affiliations School of Public Health, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety and Emergency Prevention and Control Technology of Higher Education Institutions in Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Centre for Global Health, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, Changzhou Third People’s Hospital, Changzhou Medical Centre, Nanjing Medical University, Changzhou, China

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• Jun Cao

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

  * E-mail: yaobao0721@163.com (YBL); you.li@njmu.edu.cn (YL); caojuncn@hotmail.com (JC)

  Affiliations School of Public Health, Key Laboratory of Public Health Safety and Emergency Prevention and Control Technology of Higher Education Institutions in Jiangsu Province, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, China, Jiangsu Institute of Parasitic Diseases, National Health Commission Key Laboratory of Parasitic Disease Control and Prevention, Jiangsu Provincial Key Laboratory on Parasite and Vector Control Technology, Wuxi, China

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