Toxocara 2012

ESCCAP – European Scientific Counsel Companion Animal Parasites
participants attended a 2 day scientific meeting to review current important issues in Toxocara and Toxocarosis

Held in Budapest, Hungary : 3rd - 5th October 2012

Following the huge success of the ESCCAP Toxocara2012 event in Budapest, we are pleased to announce that all website presentations have been uploaded onto the KeySkill website (click here).

Plenary sessions from the meeting will also be published in a special issue of Veterinary Parasitology at the end of March 2013.
http://www.journals.elsevier.com/veterinary-parasitology/

Articles from the special issue are also available to view using Science Direct at www.sciencedirect.com

 Click here to view video

ESCCAP hopes to hold a similar event in 2015. The subject is still to be announced.

Further information about ESCCAP can be found on ESCCAP's main website at www.esccap.org

ESCCAP Secretariat, ESCCAP, Malvern Hills Science Park,
Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 3SZ, UK

Telephone: 01684 585135
E-mail: info@esccap.org
Website: www.ESCCAP.org

 

Toxocara Sponsors

Christina Strube Toxocara infections in paratenic hosts page link Click here for video
Ted Chia-Kwung Fan Factors affecting disease manifestation of toxocarosis in humans: genetics and environment page link Click here for video
Judith Fillaux Laboratory diagnosis of human toxocariasis page link Click here for video
Elena Pinelli Human toxocarosis overview: impact on the individual, the population and on allergic manifestations page link Click here for video
Marta Wieczorec Analysis of the course and treatment of toxocariasis in children - a long-term observation page link Click here for video
Dusan Lalosevic Clinical and laboratory correlates of human toxocarosis diagnosed by indirect immunofluorescence page link Click here for video
Jozsef Danka Short history and review of relevant data of serodiagnosis of human toxocarosis in Hungary page link Click here for video
Chia-Mei Chou Inhibition of TGF-Β1 expression lessens inflammatory injury of experimental pulmonary toxocariasis page link Click here for video
Robin Gasser Harnessing molecular technologies to explore the biology of Toxocara page link Click here for video
Kirenzi Kanobana An agent-based model of exposure to human toxocariasis: a multi-country validation page link Click here for video
Rick Maizels Toxocara canis: immune recognition and evasion at the molecular level page link Click here for video
Paul Overgaauw Veterinary public health aspects of Toxocara page link Click here for video
Alice Lee Migration and survival of T. canis in eosinophil-deficient mice page link Click here for video