PMID- 8784498
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 19961018
LR  - 20190616
IS  - 0077-8923 (Print)
IS  - 0077-8923 (Linking)
VI  - 791
DP  - 1996 Jul 23
TI  - TRYPNET. New hemoparasite information network.
PG  - 166-71
AB  - Although Guyana, Suriname, and French Guiana share borders and climatic and 
      geographic similarities, the countries have maintained little contact, due to 
      language, political, and administrative differences. In 1993, two international 
      organizations involved in the improvement of animal health, the Inter-American 
      Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) and CIRAD-EMVT (Centre de 
      Cooperation Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Developpement-Elevage 
      et Medecine Veterinaire des Pays Tropicaux), jointly developed a collaborative 
      project between the veterinary services of the three countries entitled 
      "Hemoparasite Network for the Guianas." This project seeks to pool livestock, 
      laboratory, and technical resources between the three countries in order to 
      generate and exchange information on hemoparasites of livestock. A Hemoparasite 
      Reference Laboratory for the Guianas has been created at the CIRAD-EMVT 
      laboratory in Cayenne, French Guiana. Besides processing ruminant serum samples 
      from the three countries, specialists from this organization conduct training in 
      hemoparasite diagnostic techniques for laboratory personnel from Guyana and 
      Suriname. A large-scale epidemiologic study of hemoparasites of cattle in the 
      three countries is under way, to determine the prevalence, distribution, and 
      clinical and economic significance of hemoparasites in the three countries, 
      particularly Trypanosoma vivax and T. evansi. Preliminary results are presented 
      and discussed. A Hemoparasite Information Network (TRYPNET) has been initiated, 
      including a quarterly hemoparasite newsletter (TRYPNEWS), published in English 
      and Spanish and disseminated to researchers in the Americas, Europe, and Africa. 
      In 1995/96, it is proposed to expand the network's scope to include Venezuela and 
      Brazil.
FAU - Vokaty, S
AU  - Vokaty S
AD  - Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA), Georgetown, 
      Guyana.
FAU - Desquesnes, M
AU  - Desquesnes M
FAU - Applewhaite, L
AU  - Applewhaite L
FAU - Favre, J
AU  - Favre J
FAU - Lieuw-A-Joe, R
AU  - Lieuw-A-Joe R
FAU - Parris-Aaron, M
AU  - Parris-Aaron M
FAU - Bansse-Iisa, L
AU  - Bansse-Iisa L
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
PL  - United States
TA  - Ann N Y Acad Sci
JT  - Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences
JID - 7506858
SB  - IM
MH  - Abattoirs
MH  - Anaplasmosis/epidemiology
MH  - Animals
MH  - Cattle
MH  - Cattle Diseases/*epidemiology
MH  - *Databases, Factual
MH  - Demography
MH  - French Guiana/epidemiology
MH  - Guyana/epidemiology
MH  - International Cooperation
MH  - Parasitic Diseases/epidemiology
MH  - *Parasitic Diseases, Animal
MH  - Suriname/epidemiology
MH  - Ticks
MH  - Trypanosoma vivax
MH  - Trypanosomiasis/epidemiology/veterinary
MH  - Trypanosomiasis, African/epidemiology/veterinary
EDAT- 1996/07/23 00:00
MHDA- 1996/07/23 00:01
CRDT- 1996/07/23 00:00
PHST- 1996/07/23 00:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 1996/07/23 00:01 [medline]
PHST- 1996/07/23 00:00 [entrez]
AID - 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1996.tb53523.x [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Ann N Y Acad Sci. 1996 Jul 23;791:166-71. doi: 
      10.1111/j.1749-6632.1996.tb53523.x.