Comment on: Retrospective study of human cystic echinococcosis in Italy based on the analysis of hospital discharge records between 2001 and 2012

Acta Trop. 2015 Apr:144:50-1. doi: 10.1016/j.actatropica.2015.01.002. Epub 2015 Jan 16.

¹ Department of Clinical, Surgical, Diagnostic and Paediatric Sciences, University of Pavia, Via Brambilla 74, 27100 Pavia, Italy; WHO Collaborating Centre for Clinical Management of Cystic Echinococcosis, Via Taramelli 5, 27100 Pavia, Italy. Electronic address: f_tamarozzi@yahoo.com.
² Division of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, San Matteo Hospital Foundation, Via Taramelli 5, 27100 Pavia, Italy; WHO Collaborating Centre for Clinical Management of Cystic Echinococcosis, Via Taramelli 5, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
³ Department of Infectious, Parasitic and Immunomediated Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy.
⁴ Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Lombardia e dell'Emilia Romagna, Laboratory of Pavia, Strada Campeggi 59, 27100 Pavia, Italy.
⁵ Department of Clinical, Surgical, Diagnostic and Paediatric Sciences, University of Pavia, Via Brambilla 74, 27100 Pavia, Italy; Division of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, San Matteo Hospital Foundation, Via Taramelli 5, 27100 Pavia, Italy; WHO Collaborating Centre for Clinical Management of Cystic Echinococcosis, Via Taramelli 5, 27100 Pavia, Italy.

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Keywords: Burden; Clinical management; Cystic echinococcosis; Hospital discharge records; Reporting system.

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