Workshop on research priorities for management and treatment of angiostrongyliasis(1).

An international transdisciplinary workshop on angiostrongyliasis was held August 16–18, 2011, in Honolulu, Hawaii, USA, expanding on an inaugural workshop in Thailand in 2010 (1,2). The workshop convened scientists and clinicians from regions and countries as far apart as Brazil, China, Jamaica, Taiwan, Thailand, and the United States, with expertise in a range of fields including parasitology, ecology, food safety, epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment. The workshop’s goal was to develop a rigorous research agenda to address the parasitic infection known as rat lungworm disease at a global scale through advancing an integrated understanding of the infection.