Efisio Arru (

Siligo Siligo is a ''comune'' (municipality) in the region of Logudoro - Meilogu in the Province of Sassari in the Italy, Italian region Sardinia, located about north of Cagliari and about southeast of Sassari. Siligo borders the following municipalit ...

, 1927 –

Sassari Sassari ( ; ; ; ) is an Italian city and the second-largest of Sardinia in terms of population with 120,497 inhabitants as of 2025, and a functional urban area of about 260,000 inhabitants. One of the oldest cities on the island, it contains ...

, 2000) was an Italian scientist, from

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. He graduated from the Veterinary Faculty of the

University of Sassari The University of Sassari (, UniSS) is a public university located in Sassari, Italy. It was founded in 1562 and is organized in 13 departments. The University of Sassari earned first place in the rankings for the best “medium-sized” Italian ...

in 1957, and in 1978 was appointed Professor of Parasitology at that university. Efisio Arru played a role in the study of parasitology in Italy,. in particular the study and the fight against

Echinococcus ''Echinococcus'' is a genus within Cestoda, a parasitic class of the platyhelminthes phylum (colloquially known as flatworms). Human echinococcosis is an infectious disease caused by the following species: '' E. granulosus'', '' E. multilocul ...

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1927 births 2000 deaths Italian biologists People from Siligo Academic staff of the University of Sassari 20th-century Italian scientists 20th-century Italian biologists University of Sassari alumni {{Italy-scientist-stub