In the Journal of American Veterinary Medical Association has been definitively published the guidelines of the CLWG with the following final titles and list of authors which participated to the preparation of the articles:
Paltrinieri S., Solano-Gallego L., Fondati A., Lubas G., Gradoni L., Castagnaro M., Crotti A., Maroli M., Oliva G., Roura X., Zatelli A., Zini E. - Guidelines for diagnosis and clinical classification of leishmaniasis in dogs – J Am Vet Med Assoc, 236 (11): 1184-1191, 2010 ISSN/ISBN: 0003-1488
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20513195
Oliva G., Roura X., Crotti A., Maroli M., Castagnaro M., Gradoni L., Lubas G., Paltrinieri S., Zatelli A., Zini E. - Guidelines for treatment of leishmaniasis in dogs - J Am Vet Med Assoc, 236 (11): 1192-1198, 2010 ISSN/ISBN: 0003-1488
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20513197
Maroli M., Gradoni L., Oliva G., Castagnaro M., Crotti A., Lubas G., Paltrinieri S., Roura X., Zini E., Zatelli A. - Guidelines for prevention of leishmaniasis in dogs - J Am Vet Med Assoc, 236 (11): 1200-1206, 2010 ISSN/ISBN: 0003-1488
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20513198
In the month of May of this year has been published the monograph “Canine Leishmaniasis: recent advances in epidemiology, clinical findings, diagnosis, therapy and prevention”. This book is a collection of the extended presentations given in the occasion of the second International Conference in Canine Leishmaniasis that was held in Pisa last April. The authors of this book are almost the same that participated to the conference. The initial page and the index of the contents are here attached ( please refer to link 1, Monografia Leishmaniosi canina). This volume has been distributed by Hill’s Pet Nutrition Italy to the practitioners, which took part to the Prevention Season in the year 2010.
At the end of last June 2010 a meeting of CLWG has been held in Rome where have been discussed the future activities in the next two year that will be definitively elaborated and approved in the next meeting of CLWG that will be held in November in Rome. Dr. Alessandra Fondati was taking part to the meeting and she is again officially included in the list of members of CLWG.