Blastocystis prevalence and subtypes in autochthonous and immigrant patients in a referral centre for parasitic infections in Italy

Chiara Piubelli; Hossein Soleymanpoor; Giovanni Giorli; Fabio Formenti; Dora Buonfrate; Zeno Bisoffi; Francesca Perandin

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0210171

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Blastocystis prevalence and subtypes in autochthonous and immigrant patients in a referral centre for parasitic infections in Italy

Chiara Piubelli ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: chiara.piubelli@sacrocuore.it

Affiliation Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar (Vr), Italy

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5739-3795

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Hossein Soleymanpoor,

Roles Investigation, Methodology

Affiliations Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar (Vr), Italy, Institute of Infectious Diseases and Public Health, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
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Giovanni Giorli,

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar (Vr), Italy
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Fabio Formenti,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology

Affiliation Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar (Vr), Italy
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Dora Buonfrate,

Roles Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar (Vr), Italy

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-0108-6822

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Zeno Bisoffi,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar (Vr), Italy
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Francesca Perandin

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft

Affiliation Department of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, IRCCS Sacro Cuore Don Calabria Hospital, Negrar (Vr), Italy
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Blastocystis prevalence and subtypes in autochthonous and immigrant patients in a referral centre for parasitic infections in Italy

Chiara Piubelli,
Hossein Soleymanpoor,
Giovanni Giorli,
Fabio Formenti,
Dora Buonfrate,
Zeno Bisoffi,
Francesca Perandin

Published: January 7, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0210171

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