Ninth International Congress on Toxoplasmosis

第九届国际弓形虫病大会将于6/7月举行 2007年在蒙大拿州奇科温泉。这是一次国际研究会议。 致力于原生动物病原体弓形虫。会议已经召开了。 在过去的20年里每两年一次，并在欧洲和美国之间切换。这个 2007年会议将由Silvia Moreno博士、Michael White博士和Boris博士组织 斯特里潘。弓形虫是艾滋病机会性感染的重要原因 病人。这种寄生虫还经常导致先天性感染，据估计 在美国，每1000名孕妇中就有一名患有弓形虫病。弓形虫 也被认为是潜在的生物恐怖主义威胁(附录B)，因为它有能力导致 通过水传播的疫情。最后，弓形虫已经成为一种基因易驯化的模型。 生物体研究几种重要的人类和艾滋病的生物学和发病机制 兽医寄生虫包括疟疾、巴贝斯虫、泰勒虫、 隐孢子虫(附录B病原体)、环孢子菌、新孢子菌、艾美耳球虫和等孢子菌。 这次会议很重要，因为它聚集了所有研究弓形虫的实验室。 并允许在正式和非正式的 水平。参与者来自世界各地(欧洲、美国、南美、澳大利亚、 日本)，这次会议汇集了分子生物学家、临床医生、产业界 研究人员和公共卫生官员。会议的目标是传播新的 该领域的进展，突出了弓形虫作为示范系统的重要性 协作和全外地倡议，并介绍新的或更年轻的调查人员 这一领域的领先者。这次会议营造了合作和合作的环境， 在弓形虫方面的合作，在田野中不经常被视为高节奏和 竞争性，并促进了对该病原体的快速和持续的研究进展 以及相关的寄生虫。

The Ninth International Congress on Toxoplasmosis will be held in June/July 2007 in Chico Hot Springs, Montana. This is an international research conference dedicated to the protozoan pathogen Toxoplasma gondii. The meeting has been held biannually for the last 20 years and switches between Europe and the United States. The 2007 conference will be organized by Drs. Silvia Moreno, Michael White and Boris Striepen. Toxoplasma gondii is an important cause of opportunistic infection in AIDS patients. This parasite also frequently causes congenital infection and it is estimated that one out of a thousand pregnancies in the U.S. is complicated by toxoplasmosis. T. gondii is also considered a potential bioterrorism threat (appendix B) due to its ability to cause waterborne outbreaks. Lastly, T. gondii has emerged as a genetically tractable model organism to study the biology and pathogenesis of several important human and veterinary parasites including Plasmodium (malaria), Babesia, Theileria, Cryptosporidium (appendix B pathogen), Cyclospora, Neospora, Eimeria, and Isospora. This meeting is important in that it gathers all of the laboratories working on T. gondii and allows for the exchange of new ideas and approaches both on a formal and informal level. Participants come from allover the world (Europe, US, South America, Australia, Japan) and the meeting brings together molecular biologists, clinicians, industry researchers and public health officials. The goals of the meeting are to disseminate new advances in the field, highlight the importance of T. gondii as a model system, foster collaboration and field-wide initiatives, and to introduce new or younger investigators to the leaders in the field. This meeting has fostered an environment of cooperation and collaboration in work on T. gondii that is not often seen in fields as high paced and competitive and has facilitated rapid and sustained progress in research on this pathogen and related parasites.