The establishment of an International Leishmania Network, ILN, was recommended by participants in a workshop held at the Fundação Tropical des Pesquisas e Tecnologia "André Tosello" in Campinas, Brazil in February 1992 under the auspices of PAHO and the Brazilian Research Council, CNPq. Leishmaniasis is a disease that affects many people in tropical countries. The AIDS panepidemic is showing that many more people are infected than was previously expected.
The network consists of a discussion group Leish-L and more structured topic areas presently covering the following:
- Leishmania Taxonomy
- Strains: Reference and Labelling
- Leishmania Cryobanks and Collections
- Leishmania Epidemiology
- Leishmaniasis Control
- Database of available hybridomas/monoclonal antibodies
- Leishmania Genome Project related information
- Searching for Literature and sites on Leishmanisis
The organizers hope that interested people will examine the above topics and suggest * improvements, links to interesting sites and new ones. In the case of new subject areas we would like to have volunteers to look after them and keep them up to date.
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