Abstract
To further enhance dialogue and promote cross-strait cooperation in the prevention and control of parasitic diseases, this paper reviewed the progress and current challenges in the cross-strait control and research of parasitic infections, based on three cross-strait meetings on parasitological research in the last decade. The major outcome of the 3rd Meeting of Cross-Strait Parasitological Research held in April 2013 was identifying the research priorities for parasitological research.Electronic supplementary materialThe online version of this article (doi:10.1186/2049-9957-3-40) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users.
Highlights
Sir Patrick Manson travelled to Formosa, Taiwan, as a medical officer to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs in 1866, where he started a lifelong career in the research of tropical medicine for diseases such as paragonimiasis, elephantiasis and malaria
Dr Xiao-Nong Zhou and Dr Jyh-Wei Shin cooperatively coordinated the 2nd Meeting of CrossStrait Parasitological Research, which was held from August 31 to September 1, 2011, at the National Cheng Kung University, in Tainan
In order to take more action relating to the five research priorities aforementioned, the meeting – the 4th Meeting of Cross-Strait Parasitological Research – will take place at the National Cheng Kung University, in Tainan, in 2015
Summary
Sir Patrick Manson travelled to Formosa, Taiwan, as a medical officer to the Chinese Imperial Maritime Customs in 1866, where he started a lifelong career in the research of tropical medicine for diseases such as paragonimiasis, elephantiasis and malaria. Epidemiology of cross-strait parasitic infections After undergoing long-term mass prevention and control, some important parasitic diseases have been well controlled, and even eliminated, in Taiwan and mainland China. Parasitic infections in mainland China The unsatisfactory public health situation during the 1950s and 1960s caused 70 million people to suffer from malaria, schistosomiasis and filariasis [8]. Dr Jia-Xu. Session 1: Food-borne zoonoses The screening of pathogenic genes and their functional research in Clonorchis sinensis Liver fluke disease epidemic and control situation in Heng county, Guangxi province The investigation on the first outbreak of Fasciola gigantica infection in mainland China Sonic hedgehog pathway activation in astrocytes by Angiostrongylus cantonensis Perspective of Taenia asiatica in Taiwan. Their research may become a guideline for the zoonosis transmission model
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