Meeting report
Mongolian and Japanese Joint Conference on "Echinococcosis: diagnosis, treatment and prevention in Mongolia" June 4, 2009
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* Corresponding author: A Ito akiraito@asahikawa-med.ac.jp
1 Health Science University of Mongolia (HSUM), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2 National Center of Communicable Diseases (NCCD), Ministry of Health, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
3 State Central Clinical Hospital (SCCH), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
4 State Research Center on Maternal and Child Health (SRCMCH), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
5 Institute of Veterinary Medicine (IVM), Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
6 Pathology Center (PC), Ministry of Health, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
7 Center of Infectious Diseases with Natural Foci (CIDNF), Ministry of Health, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
8 Mongolia V.E.T NET, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
9 Asahikawa Medical College (AMC), Asahikawa, Japan
Parasites & Vectors 2010, 3:8 doi:10.1186/1756-3305-3-8
Published: 8 February 2010Abstract
The first Mongolian-Japanese Joint Conference on "Echinococcosis: diagnosis, treatment and prevention in Mongolia" was held in Ulaanbaatar on June 4th, 2009. It was the first chance for Mongolian experts (clinicians, pathologists, parasitologists, biologists, epidemiologists, veterinarians and others working on echinococcosis) joined together. Increase in the number of cystic echinococcosis (CE) cases year by year was stressed. CE in children may be more than adult cases. Alveolar echinococcosis was suspected chronic malignant hepatic tumors or abscesses. Main discussion was as to how to introduce modern diagnostic tools for pre-surgical diagnosis, how to establish the national system for the data base of echinococcosis with the establishment of a network system by experts from different areas. The importance of molecular identification of the parasites in domestic and wild animals was also stressed.