The meeting of the WHO Informal Working Group on Echinococcosis (IWGE) on the occasion of the XXIV International Congress of Hydatidology was held in Urumqi, China, on the 17 September 2011.
The meeting addressed six topics:
- Topic 1: The IWGE (François Meslin)
- Topic 2: Update on control guidelines (Philip S Craig)
- Topic 3: EG95 vaccine research protocol (Marshall Lightowlers)
- Topic 4: COST proposal “One health” (Mar Siles-Lucas)
- Topic 5: Next clinical guidelines? (Enrico Brunetti)
- Topic 6: Proposed IWGE plan of work (Peter Kern)