Qinghai: Major breakthrough in the control of echinococcosis

Xining, October 26 (Chen Peng, Zhang Tianfu) A reporter from China News Network learned from the Plateau Medical Research Center of Qinghai University on the 26th that the latest research result of the center's Professor Ge Rili team "Evaluation of the effect of the use of multilocular echinococcus leucine aminopeptidase in the targeted treatment of alveolar echinococcosis" marks that researchers have found an effective means to
inhibit the development of "worm cancer".

It is reported that the official journal of the International Federation of Immunized Societies "Frontiers in Immunology" recently released the latest research results of the Geri team "Evaluation of the effect of the use of multilocular echinococcus leucine aminopeptidase in the targeted treatment of alveolar echinococcosis", which has achieved a major breakthrough
in promoting the control of echinococcosis.

Ge Rili, leader of the above-mentioned research team and a major contributor to science and technology in Qinghai Province, introduced that echinococcosis is a zoonotic parasitic disease, which is mainly endemic in western pastoral and semi-pastoral areas
such as Qinghai, Xinjiang, Tibet, Sichuan, and Inner Mongolia in China.

Among them, alveolar echinococcosis is liver invasive growth, advanced liver cancer-like metastasis, can metastasize to the lungs, brain, breast and other organs, clinically known as "worm cancer", seriously endangering the health of people in the pastoral areas of western China, has been listed as one of
the key parasitic diseases in China.

Tang Feng, chief researcher of the above-mentioned research group, and Zhou Zhen, an important researcher, introduced that the growth of hydatids in human organs is as unscrupulous and unstoppable as the spread of cancer cells, and there is no effective way to prevent it in the field of internal medicine, and the research results have found effective means
to inhibit the development of "worm cancer".

Alvaretz, an expert from the International Autonomous University of Mexico City, and Luo Xuenong, an expert from the Lanzhou Veterinary Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, agreed that the major breakthrough in this research lies in the discovery for the first time that leucine aminopeptidase plays an important role in the formation and infiltrative growth of host vesicles infected with multilocular echinococcus, and the great significance is to provide an ideal vaccine candidate antigen for the prevention and treatment of alveolar echinococcosis
.

According to the reporter of China News Network, in 2012, the average prevalence of echinococcosis in Qinghai Province was 0.
63%, and has since declined, dropping to 0.
17%
in 2021.
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