15:30-17:10
ROUNDTABLE 7B - Auditório 1
RT7: Diagnostic in persisting schistosomiasis transmission areas
OP8: Diagnosis
OP9: Immunology
Chair: Cristina Toscano (IRR/FIOCRUZ, Brazil)
- Cornelis H. Hokke (Leiden University, Netherlands)
- Otávio Pieri (IOC/FIOCRUZ, Brazil) – “Evaluation of the Point-of-Care Circulating Cathodic Antigen (POC-CCA) assay for use in the surveillance and control of schistosomiasis in areas of low endemicity in Brazil.”
- Jose M. Peralta (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) – “Real-Time PCR Improves Detection of Active Infection in Human Feces and Treatment Failure Following Multiple Chemotherapeutic Rounds in Schistosoma mansoni Low Endemic Area”
ROUNDTABLE 8B - Auditório 2
RT8: Drug development and resistance
OP10: Clinical aspects
Chair: Thiago Almeida Pereira (Stanford University, USA)
- Jonathan S. Marchant (University of Minnesota) – “Characterization of a Schistosome target of Praziquantel.”
- Elly Kourany-Lefoll (PEDPZQ Consortium, CH) - TO BE CONFIRMED
- To be announced