World Health Organization : Year 1988 ; Communicable Diseases and Emerging Infectious Diseases ; Vph 88.79: Report of the World Health Organization Informal Meeting of Working Groups on Echin-Ococc Osis Research

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Title:	World Health Organization : Year 1988 ; Communicable Diseases and Emerging Infectious Diseases ; Vph 88.79: Report of the World Health Organization Informal Meeting of Working Groups on Echin-Ococc Osis Research
Author:	World Health Organization
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Language:	English
Subject:	Health., Public health, Wellness programs
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Excerpt
Introduction Dr T. Fujikura. Veterinary Public Health, Division of Communicable Diseases, World Hcalth Organization, welcomed the participants (Annex I) and opened the meeting on behalf of the Director-General, He recalled the background and aims of the meeting as follows: (1) to review the progress reports of the working groups, including terms of reference of each group, its membership, collaborative work plans for the period 1989-1990, information exchange and funding; (2) to discuss recent advances in science and technology in the field of echinococcosis diagnosis, treatment, prevention and control with a view to further development of collaborative studies.

Table of Contents
CONTENTS Introduction ........................................................ 2 1. Working groups on echinococcosis research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 2. Recant advances in echinococcosis research . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Recommendations ..................................................... 5 3 . 1 Coordinating group . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 3.2 Biology and strainvariation ................................... 6 3.3 Immunology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.h Immunodiagnosis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 3.5 Medical aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 3.6 Epidemiology and control . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 3.7 Chemotherapy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Annex I List of participants ........................................ 10 Annex 11 List of working group members ............................... 12 Annex 111 Terms of reference and progressreports of t h e w o r k i n g groups on e c h i n o c o c c o s i s r e s e a r c h . . . . . . . . . . 18 Annex IV L i s t o f w o r k i n g papers ...................................... 22