Marucci G, Tonanzi D, Interisano M, Vatta P, Galati F, La Rosa G
Department of Infectious Diseases, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, Rome 00161, Italy.
DG-INF, Servizio di Informatica, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299, Rome 00161, Italy.
Food Waterborne Parasitol. 2022 Apr 19;27:e00156. doi: 10.1016/j.fawpar.2022.e00156. eCollection 2022 Jun.
The International Trichinella Reference Centre (ITRC) is the official laboratory of the International Commission on Trichinellosis, of the World Organization for Animal Health and of the European Union Reference Laboratory for Parasites. The ITRC was established in 1988 as a repository of strains and a source of reference materials and information for international scientific research. To date, more than 8000 isolates collected throughout the world have been identified at the species or genotype level by the ITRC staff and the information has been stored in a freely accessible database providing the largest collection of data available for scientists involved in the systematics and epidemiology of this parasite. This paper presents a summary of the data collected over 33 years of activity and describes the database functionalities. It finally advocates the potential of the database to improve knowledge of the epidemiology and taxonomy of , which in turn may help the international surveillance of species.
国际旋毛虫参考中心（ITRC）是旋毛虫病国际委员会、世界动物卫生组织以及欧盟寄生虫参考实验室的官方实验室。ITRC成立于1988年，作为菌株的储存库以及国际科研参考材料和信息的来源。迄今为止，ITRC的工作人员已在物种或基因型水平上鉴定了全球收集的8000多个分离株，这些信息已存储在一个可免费访问的数据库中，为从事该寄生虫系统学和流行病学研究的科学家提供了最大的数据集。本文总结了33年活动中收集的数据，并描述了数据库的功能。最后，本文倡导该数据库在增进旋毛虫流行病学和分类学知识方面的潜力，这反过来可能有助于对旋毛虫物种进行国际监测。
