About the Authors

Zonghao Hou

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation

☯ Shengxiang Hou and Zonghao Hou have contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Qinghai University, Qinghai, P. R. China

Shengxiang Hou

Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – original draft

☯ Shengxiang Hou and Zonghao Hou have contributed equally to this work.

Affiliation Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Qinghai University, Qinghai, P. R. China

Zhixin Wang

Roles Formal analysis, Resources, Software, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Qinghai University, Qinghai, P. R. China, Qinghai Research Key Laboratory for Echinococcosis, Qinghai, P. R. China

Haijiu Wang

Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Software, Supervision

Affiliations Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Qinghai University, Qinghai, P. R. China, Qinghai Research Key Laboratory for Echinococcosis, Qinghai, P. R. China

Manjun Deng

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

surgeon23@163.com (MD); fanhaining@medmail.com.cn (FH)

Affiliations Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Qinghai University, Qinghai, P. R. China, Laboratory of Stem Cell and Regenerative Medicine, Affiliated Hospital of Qinghai University, Qinghai, P. R. China

Haining Fan

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

surgeon23@163.com (MD); fanhaining@medmail.com.cn (FH)

Affiliations Department of Hepatopancreatobiliary Surgery, Affiliated Hospital of Qinghai University, Qinghai, P. R. China, Qinghai Research Key Laboratory for Echinococcosis, Qinghai, P. R. China

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.