Cystic and alveolar echinococcosis: Successes and continuing challenges

Affiliations

¹ Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America.
² WHO Collaborating Centre for the epidemiology, detection and control of cystic and alveolar echinococcosis (in humans and animals); European Reference Laboratory for Parasites; Istituto Superiore di Sanita', Rome, Italy.
³ Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
⁴ WHO-Collaborating Centre on Prevention and Treatment of Human Echinococcosis, and French National Reference Centre for Echinococcoses; University Bourgogne Franche-Comté and University Hospital; Besançon, France.

Christine M Budke et al. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2017.

. 2017 Apr 20;11(4):e0005477.

doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0005477. eCollection 2017 Apr.

¹ Department of Veterinary Integrative Biosciences, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, United States of America.
² WHO Collaborating Centre for the epidemiology, detection and control of cystic and alveolar echinococcosis (in humans and animals); European Reference Laboratory for Parasites; Istituto Superiore di Sanita', Rome, Italy.
³ Department of Internal Medicine III, University Hospital of Ulm, Ulm, Germany.
⁴ WHO-Collaborating Centre on Prevention and Treatment of Human Echinococcosis, and French National Reference Centre for Echinococcoses; University Bourgogne Franche-Comté and University Hospital; Besançon, France.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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