Abstract
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.
Highlights
The first Mongolian-Japanese Joint Conference on “Echinococcosis: diagnosis, treatment and prevention in Mongolia” was held in Ulaanbaatar on June 4th, 2009
Goosh, Head of the Department of Surgery at the Mongolian National Medical University (= Health Sciences University of Mongolia (HSUM) from 2003) explained the situation of echinococcosis in Mongolia. He concluded that most cases of echinococcosis in Mongolia were cystic echinococcosis (CE), since the life style of Mongolians was nomadic
A resurgence of CE through the increase in number of dogs infected with E. granulosus was expected to become a serious public health risk for the people in these areas including Mongolia [3,4]
Summary
The first Mongolian-Japanese Joint Conference on “Echinococcosis: diagnosis, treatment and prevention in Mongolia” was held in Ulaanbaatar on June 4th, 2009. Report D Nyamkhuu, D Otgonbaatar, G Nyamkhuu, O Sergelen, A Gurbadam, Z Batsukh, K Smirmaul and A Ito had often been discussing on how to establish the reference center on echinococcosis in Mongolia from 2004.
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