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Combating echinococcosis in China: strengthening the research and development
Echinococcosis is a neglected zoonotic disease, causing great morbidity and mortality due to the wide distribution of its endemic areas. China holds a high percentage in the global burden of both cystic and alveolar echinococcosis. A national survey conducted between 2012 and 2016 showed that an est...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5697071/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29157312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-017-0374-3 |
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author | Qian, Men-Bao Abela-Ridder, Bernadette Wu, Wei-Ping Zhou, Xiao-Nong |
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description | Echinococcosis is a neglected zoonotic disease, causing great morbidity and mortality due to the wide distribution of its endemic areas. China holds a high percentage in the global burden of both cystic and alveolar echinococcosis. A national survey conducted between 2012 and 2016 showed that an estimated 50 million people are at risk of contracting the disease in western China, of whom about 0.17 million are cases with echinococcosis. Despite this, research and development on echinococcosis in China is greatly inadequate compared to that in other countries. In this paper, we argue that there is a need for more research and work to be conducted in China on echinococcosis, including researching techniques in regards to diagnosis, treatment, and vaccination, and developing products through technical transformation and piloting strategies to control and even elimination. However, great opportunities exist for China to strengthen the research and development on this disease through initiatives such as Health China 2030, the Belt and Road Initiative, the China-Africa cooperation, as well as through further cooperation between China and the World Health Organization. All of these can bring us closer to controlling echinococcosis in China as well as in other countries. One element of crucial importance will be the training and development of professionals, which can be strengthened through international cooperation. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s40249-017-0374-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-56970712017-12-01 Combating echinococcosis in China: strengthening the research and development Qian, Men-Bao Abela-Ridder, Bernadette Wu, Wei-Ping Zhou, Xiao-Nong Infect Dis Poverty Opinion Echinococcosis is a neglected zoonotic disease, causing great morbidity and mortality due to the wide distribution of its endemic areas. China holds a high percentage in the global burden of both cystic and alveolar echinococcosis. A national survey conducted between 2012 and 2016 showed that an estimated 50 million people are at risk of contracting the disease in western China, of whom about 0.17 million are cases with echinococcosis. Despite this, research and development on echinococcosis in China is greatly inadequate compared to that in other countries. In this paper, we argue that there is a need for more research and work to be conducted in China on echinococcosis, including researching techniques in regards to diagnosis, treatment, and vaccination, and developing products through technical transformation and piloting strategies to control and even elimination. However, great opportunities exist for China to strengthen the research and development on this disease through initiatives such as Health China 2030, the Belt and Road Initiative, the China-Africa cooperation, as well as through further cooperation between China and the World Health Organization. All of these can bring us closer to controlling echinococcosis in China as well as in other countries. One element of crucial importance will be the training and development of professionals, which can be strengthened through international cooperation. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (10.1186/s40249-017-0374-3) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2017-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC5697071/ /pubmed/29157312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-017-0374-3 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Opinion Qian, Men-Bao Abela-Ridder, Bernadette Wu, Wei-Ping Zhou, Xiao-Nong Combating echinococcosis in China: strengthening the research and development |
title | Combating echinococcosis in China: strengthening the research and development |
title_full | Combating echinococcosis in China: strengthening the research and development |
title_fullStr | Combating echinococcosis in China: strengthening the research and development |
title_full_unstemmed | Combating echinococcosis in China: strengthening the research and development |
title_short | Combating echinococcosis in China: strengthening the research and development |
title_sort | combating echinococcosis in china: strengthening the research and development |
topic | Opinion |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5697071/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29157312 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40249-017-0374-3 |
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