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IDDO and WWARN scientists to attend ECTMIH in September

29 Jul 2019

Teams from IDDO and WWARN are excited to once again be taking part in the European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health, ECTMIH.

11th ECTMIH 2019
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11th ECTMIH 2019

Taking place at the ACC in Liverpool, from Monday, September 16, until Friday, September 20, the ECTMIH brings together scientists and experts from across the world by providing a platform to share research and innovation in the field of tropical medicine and global health.

This year the IDDO and WWARN scientists will present:

  • A systematic review of scrub typhus study landscape: protocol and preliminary literature search results
  • The WWARN clinical trials publication library: a systematically constructed database of plasmodium clinical efficacy trials
  • Efficacy and safety of artemisinin-based and quinine-based treatments for uncomplicated falciparum malaria during pregnancy: a WWARN individual patient data meta-analysis

Dr Sauman Singh will present a speed talk on work he has been doing on visceral leishmaniasis, ‘Estimation of incidence risk of mortality and serious adverse events for antileishmanial therapies: an infectious diseases data observatory systematic review of published literature from 1980 to 2018’

The European congress is held every two years and this year marks the 11th congress.