| towards the international collaboration for detection, surveillance and control of taeniasis/ cysticercosis and echinococcosis in asia and the pacific. | both cysticercosis and echinococcosis are potentially among the most serious helminth zoonoses threatening human health worldwide. however, due to the lack of reliable tools for confirmation or identification of patients or infected animals, epidemiological data are expected to be underestimated. conversely, sometimes, such data are over estimated due to the lack of specificity. the most important issue for doing field surveys is that they use evidence based science. in this communication, advan ... | 2006 | 17547058 |