The classical book "Echinococcus and hydatid disease" by Thompson & Limbery is going to be updated and a new version published. Thomas Romig (University of Hohenheim, Germany), Alessandro Massolo (University of Calgary, Canada), Francis Raoul and Patrick Giraudoux (University of Franche-Comté/CNRS) met together in Besançon to discuss and decide about the contents of the chapter "Ecology and life cycle patterns of Echinococcus species" and contributors.
A first draft incorporating (...)
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Thomas Romig’s visit at Besançon
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Li ShuangNan 2 month internship at Chrono-environment
Li ShuangNan is studying veterinary sciences as part of her Master degree at the Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute. She will stay in Besançon for an internship at Chrono-environement from October 19 to December 20.
Salford University, Cestode zoonoses group (Phil Craig), University of Franche-Comté, Chrono-environment (Patrick Giraudoux and colleagues) and Lanzhou University (Jing Tao and colleagues) monitor a former hot spot of alveolar echinococcosis since more than 20 years. This (...) -
Archie Clement and Darren Gray’s visit at Besançon
A number of members of the GDRI EHEDE met in Besançon at the occasion of Archie Clement and Darren Gray’s venue (after the 9th Congress of Tropical Medicine and International Health at Basel, CH):
Archie Clement and Darren Gray (Australian National University, Canberra, Australia),
Alessandro Massolo (University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada),
Qi XinWei and Dominique Vuitton (Key Lab of Fundamental Medical Research on Echinococcosis, Urumqi, Xinjiang, China),
Jenny Knapp, Francis Raoul (...) -
Qi XinWei’s 3 month internship at Chrono-environment
Qi XinWei, from the 1st teaching Hospital of the Xinjiang Medical University and the Key Lab of Fundamental Medical Research on Echinococcosis, will be working at the Chrono-environment lab for three month (September 4 to November 27).
In 2006, Qi XinWei has participated to field works carried out in Narati, Xinyuan county (Yili valley, Tian Shan) coordinated by Patrick Giraudoux with the support of the Xinjiang Medical University and the 1st teaching hospital (Pr. Wen Hao), in the (...) -
Alessandro Massolo’s sabbatical
Dr. Alessandro Massolo, from the Wildlife Ecology and Spatial Epidemiology Lab (WEASEL) of the University of Calgary, will be working at the Chrono-environnement lab for a research sabbatical of 5 months, on the transmission ecology of Echinococcus multilocularis, with the support of the Regional Council of Franche-Comté.
In collaboration with Drs. J. Knapp, F. Raoul and A. Perasso, Pr. P. Giraudoux, and V. Baudrot (PhD student), he will work mainly on the following issues:
Mathematical (...)
