Conference Agenda

Older urban rats are infected with the zoonotic nematode Angiostrongylus cantonensis

Phoebe Rivory¹, Miguel Bedoya-Pérez^2,3, Michael Ward¹, Jan Slapeta^1,4

¹Sydney School of Veterinary Science, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, New South Wales, 2006, Australia; ²The Lambert Initiative for Cannabinoid Therapeutics, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; ³School of Psychology, Faculty of Science, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; ⁴Sydney Infectious Diseases Institute, The University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

High prevalence of hookworms and Strongyloides stercoralis in school-age children cohabiting with dogs in Cambodia, despite long-term, bi-annual mass drug administration

Patsy A. Zendejas Heredia¹, Molyden Vann², Shannon M. Hedtke³, Samantha Kufel¹, Warwick N. Grant³, Robin B. Gasser¹, Martin Walker^4,5, Rekol Huy², Rebecca J. Traub⁶, Virak Khieu², Vito Colella¹

¹Department of Veterinary Biosciences, Melbourne Veterinary School, Faculty of Science, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria, Australia.; ²National Centre for Parasitology, Entomology and Malaria Control, Ministry of Health, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.; ³Department of Environment and Genetics, School of Agriculture, Biomedicine and Environment, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, Australia.; ⁴Department of Pathobiology and Population Sciences, Royal Veterinary College, University of London, UK.; ⁵London Centre for Neglected Tropical Disease Research, Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology, Imperial College London, London, UK.; ⁶Department of Infectious Diseases and Public Health at City University Hong Kong

Diagnostic sensitivity of formalin-fixed faecal microscopy techniques for the detection of soil-transmitted helminths

Amanda Ash¹, Boualay Keokhamphavanh², Breanna Knight¹, Ashleigh Peck¹, Kelly Taggart¹, Sarah Keatley¹, Bounnaloth Insisiengmay², Andrew Larkins¹

¹College of Environmental and Life Sciences, Murdoch University, Australia; ²Department of Communicable Disease Control Ministry of Health Lao PDR