17-21 March,2012
Ryukoku University,1-5 Yokotani,Seta Oe-cho,Otsu,Japan
Zen'ichiro Kawabata (Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Japan)
Although preventive measures against infectious disease have focused primarily
on developing rapid and accurate diagnostic methods as well as prevention
of the spread of disease after an outbreak, it is necessary to understand
the interactions among environments, pathogens and their hosts which are
responsible for inducing and spreading infectious diseases in order to
help experts respond to infectious diseases proactively to reduce the damage
of the outbreak of infectious diseases. However, we don’t have enough data
yet to verify the interactions. The first event of the outbreak of infectious
diseases is encounter of pathogens with their hosts. Therefore, we need
to know their ecologies. On the other hand, human has been altering vastly
the environments in various ways. Therefore, to understand how the pathogen
and host are linked under some environments is indispensable to propose
implementations for alleviate the outbreak of the infectious diseases.
In this symposium, after exchanging the information of pathogens and their
hosts under some specific environments, we are going to discuss perspectives
of disease ecology and propose urgent ecological research subjects to carry
out.