CHINESE JOURNAL OF PARASITOLOGY AND PARASITIC DISEASES ›› 2025, Vol. 43 ›› Issue (1): 119-123.doi: 10.12140/j.issn.1000-7423.2025.01.018

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Advances in establishment of a national echinococcosis reference laboratory network in China

WANG Ying*()(), LIU Baixue, WANG Xu, WANG Liying, XUE Chuizhao, KUI Yan, YANG Shijie, WU Weiping, HAN Shuai   

  1. National Institute of Parasitic Diseases, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention; Chinese Center for Tropical Diseases Research; National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracking and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases; Key Laboratory on Parasite and Vector Biology, National Health Commission; WHO Collaborating Centre for Tropical Diseases; National Center for International Research on Tropical Diseases, Ministry of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200025, China
  • Received:2024-11-20 Revised:2025-01-27 Online:2025-02-28 Published:2025-03-26
  • Contact: E-mail: wangying@nipd.chinacdc.cn E-mail:wangying@nipd.chinacdc.cn
  • Supported by:
    Three-Year Initiative Plan for Strengthening Public Health System Construction in Shanghai (2023-2025) Key Discipline Project(GWVI-11.1-12);National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFC2300800);National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFC2300804)

Abstract:

Echinococcosis is a parasitic disease that has been given a high priority for control interventions in China. Reference laboratories are a guarantee for accurate acquisition of epidemiological data, assessment of the effectiveness of control interventions and monitoring of disease prevalence. Since the establishment of the echinococcosis reference laboratory network was initiated in 2013 in China, the province-level reference laboratories have currently covered 70% of echinococcosis-endemic areas. This review summarizes the establishment of the national echinococcosis reference laboratories in China, analyzes the challenges and proposes future directions and priories, so as to provide insights into improving the capacity of echinococcosis detection and accelerating the process towards echinococcosis control in China.

Key words: Echinococcosis, Reference laboratory, Detection, Capacity building

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