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Peter Chiodini1
1UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) Malaria Reference Laboratory
Echinococcosis and taeniasis/cysticercosis are both neglected tropical diseases. Whilst cysticercosis has received increased attention in the last two decades, especially with respect to therapeutics, drug treatment for cystic echinococcosis has hardly changed since the early 1980s when albendazole and praziquantel became available. At the same time, with the advent of improved cross-sectional imaging, alveolar echinococcosis is increasingly recognised and its geographical range has extended westwards in Europe. This lecture focuses on these medically important cestodes, the challenges they pose and the prospects for their elimination.
1UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) Malaria Reference Laboratory
Echinococcosis and taeniasis/cysticercosis are both neglected tropical diseases. Whilst cysticercosis has received increased attention in the last two decades, especially with respect to therapeutics, drug treatment for cystic echinococcosis has hardly changed since the early 1980s when albendazole and praziquantel became available. At the same time, with the advent of improved cross-sectional imaging, alveolar echinococcosis is increasingly recognised and its geographical range has extended westwards in Europe. This lecture focuses on these medically important cestodes, the challenges they pose and the prospects for their elimination.
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