A comparison of Kato-Katz technique to three other methods for diagnosis of Amphimerus spp. liver fluke infection and the prevalence of infection in Chachi Amerindians of Ecuador

• Manuel Calvopina ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: manuelcalvopina@gmail.com, manuel.calvopina@udla.edu.ec

  Affiliation OneHealth Group, Carrera de Medicina, Facultad de Ciencias de la Salud, Universidad De Las Américas (UDLA), Quito, Ecuador

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0286-0747

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• Daniel Romero-Alvarez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology – Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America

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• Fernanda Diaz,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Carrera de Medicina, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• William Cevallos,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Carrera de Medicina, Universidad Central del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador

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• Hiromu Sugiyama

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Parasitology, National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan

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