Workshops
2nd Grant period May 2016-April 2017
Euro-FBP Meeting
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"Towards a consensus on subtyping schemes for surveillance and outbreak investigations of Cryptosporidium”
This two-day meeting aims at reaching a consensus on current typing and subtyping of Cryptosporidium, a FBP of considerable importance in Europe. To date, and despite extensive research, a global consensus on how to apply multi-locus subtyping in a standardised fashion is missing and has largely rendered interlaboratory comparisons of results difficult. The Workshop will address the topic from several points of view, including human and animal health perspective, foodborne and waterborne transmission, and evolutionary biology. These aspects will be mostly covered by experts from the COST action (Rachel M. Chalmers, Simone M. Cacciò, Letitia Kortbeek, Karin Troell). An invited expert in Cryptosporidium biology and genetics, Dr. Giovanni Widmer (Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, Department of Infectious Disease and Global Health, USA), will address the topic from an evolutionary standpoint. This will not be a training session, and attending participants should have background knowledge and experience on genotyping / sub-genotyping this parasite. The WS program can be downloaded below: 
Presentations from the workshop can be found under the Members section
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Participants EURO-FBP workshop "Towards a consensus on subtyping schemes for surveillance and outbreak investigations of Cryptosporidium”
