Project

BEL-42 World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for monitoring anthelminthic drug efficacy against soil-transmitted helminths.

Code

3G0D4315

Duration

01 January 2015 → 31 December 2019

Funding

Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)

Promotor

Edwin Claerebout

Research disciplines

Natural sciences
- Microbiology
Medical and health sciences
- Immunology
- Microbiology
- Tropical medicine
- Immunology
- Microbiology
- Tropical medicine
- Public health care
- Public health sciences
- Public health services
- Immunology
- Microbiology
- Tropical medicine
Agricultural and food sciences
- Veterinary medicine

Keywords

anthelmintic drug efficacy soil-transmitted helminths anthelmintic resistance

Project description

On request of WHO, the Laboratory of Parasitology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine (Ghent University) applied for becoming the WHO Collaborating Centre (CC) for the monitoring of anthelmintic efficacy against Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura and hookworms, the so called soil-transmitted helminths. The 4-year mandate started in 2009, and has been prolonged in 2013. This project provides fincanial support to the Laboratory of Parasitoology to perform this mandate.