International consensus on terminology to be used in the field of echinococcoses
Dominique A. Vuitton, Donald P. McManus, M.T. Rogan, Thomas Romig, Bruno Gottstein, Ariel Naidich, Tuerhongjiang Tuxun, Hao Wen, António Menezes da Silva, Dominique A. Vuitton, Donald P. McManus, Thomas Romig, Michael R. Rogan, Bruno Gottstein, António Menezes da Silva, Hao Wen, Ariel Naidich, Tuerhongjiang Tuxun, Amza Avcioglu, Belgees Boufana, Christine M. Budke, Adriano Casulli, Esin Güven, Andreas Hillenbrand, Fateme Jalousian, Mohamed Habib Jemli, Jenny Knapp, AbdElkarim Laatamna, Samia Lahmar, Ariel Naidich, M.T. Rogan, Seyed Mahmoud Sadjjadi, Julian Schmidberger, Manel Amri, Anne‐Pauline Bellanger, Sara Benazzouz, Klaus Brehm, Andreas Hillenbrand, Fateme Jalousian, Malika Kachani, Moussa Labsi, Giovanna Masala, António Menezes da Silva, Mahmoud Sadjjadi Seyed, Imene Soufli, Chafia Touil–Boukoffa, Junhua Wang, E. Zeyhle, Tuerganaili Aji, Okan Akhan, Solange Bresson‐Hadni, Chadli Dziri, Tilmann Gräter, Beate Grüner, Assia Haïf, Andreas Hillenbrand, Stéphane Koch, M.T. Rogan, Francesca Tamarozzi, Tuerhongjiang Tuxun, Patrick Giraudoux, Paul R. Torgerson, Katherina Vizcaychipi, Ning Xiao, Nazmiye Altıntaş, Renyong Lin, Laurence Millon, Wenbao Zhang, Karima Achour, Haining Fan, Thomas Junghanss, Georges Mantion
Abstract
Echinococcoses require the involvement of specialists from nearly all disciplines; standardization of the terminology used in the field is thus crucial. To harmonize echinococcosis terminology on sound scientific and linguistic grounds, the World Association of Echinococcosis launched a Formal Consensus process. Under the coordination of a Steering and Writing Group (SWG), a Consultation and Rating Group (CRG) had the main missions of (1) providing input on the list of terms drafted by the SWG, taking into account the available literature and the participants' experience; and (2) providing independent rating on all debated terms submitted to vote. The mission of the Reading and Review Group (RRG) was to give an opinion about the recommendation paper in terms of readability, acceptability and applicability. The main achievements of this process were: (1) an update of the current nomenclature of Echinococcus spp.; (2) an agreement on three names of diseases due to Echinococcus spp.: Cystic Echinococcosis (CE), Alveolar Echinococcosis (AE) and Neotropical Echinococcosis (NE), and the exclusion of all other names; (3) an agreement on the restricted use of the adjective "hydatid" to refer to the cyst and fluid due to E. granulosus sensu lato; and (4) an agreement on a standardized description of the surgical operations for CE, according to the "Approach, cyst Opening, Resection, and Completeness" (AORC) framework. In addition, 95 "approved" and 60 "rejected" terms were listed. The recommendations provided in this paper will be applicable to scientific publications in English and communication with professionals. They will be used for translation into other languages spoken in endemic countries.