Report on the First Meeting of the IDEAL (Initiative for Diagnostic and Epidemiological Assays for Leprosy) Consortium held at Armauer Hansen Research Institute, ALERT, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 24–27 October 2004
Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: The IDEAL (Initiative for Diagnostic and Epidemiological Assays for Leprosy) consortium was established following a WHO/TDR sponsored workshop held in Amsterdam in October 2003, in which strategies for the development of new diagnostic and epidemiological assays, based on these technical developments, were defined. An Interim Steering Committee was appointed with the objective to set up a network of relevant research and field sites, write a coordinated research proposal and, where possible, coordinate activities between partners. A call for partners was published at the end of 2003 via the Leprosy Mailing List. At the moment the network consists of nearly 30 partners from all continents. The Heiser Program for Research on Tuberculosis and Leprosy of the New York Community Trust funded the organization of a workshop with all partners of IDEAL. The meeting comprised state of the art lectures and workshops, which are reported here.
Source: Leprosy Review
DOI: 10.47276/lr.76.2.147
Authors: Abraham Aseffa, Patrick Brennan, Hazel Dockrell, Tom Gillis, Rabia Hussain, Linda Oskam, Jan Hendrik Richardus
Institution: Royal Tropical Institute
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W245945418