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Developing a national strategy to bring pathogen genomics into practiceExternalEvents
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Developing a national strategy to bring pathogen genomics into practice. Presentation from the Technical Meeting on the impact of Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) on food safety management and GMI-9, 23-25 May 2016, Rome, Italy.
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By Dr Rachel Thompson, Head of Research Interpretation/ Head CUP Secretariat
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Future Health Challenges: Developing Global Norms for Data and Results Sharing during Public Health Emergencies. Presentation from the Technical Meeting on the impact of Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) on food safety management and GMI-9, 23-25 May 2016, Rome, Italy.
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Professor Martin Wiseman presentation on The Continuous Update Project: Introduction to the Project at FENS European Nutrition Conference, 20-23 October 2015 Berlin (Germany).
Introduction to the WCRF International Continuous Update Project
By Dr Rachel Thompson, Head of Research Interpretation/ Head CUP Secretariat
6 December 2014, UICC World Cancer Congress, Melbourne
Professor Martin Wiseman’s presentation, The Continuous Update Project: Introduction to the Project, at the African Organisation for Research & Training in Cancer (AORTIC) conference, 18-22 November 2015, Marrakech, Morocco.
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Future Health Challenges: Developing Global Norms for Data and Results Sharin...ExternalEvents
http://www.fao.org/about/meetings/wgs-on-food-safety-management/en/
Future Health Challenges: Developing Global Norms for Data and Results Sharing during Public Health Emergencies. Presentation from the Technical Meeting on the impact of Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) on food safety management and GMI-9, 23-25 May 2016, Rome, Italy.
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• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
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International partnerships - Shining light on the neglected zoonoses
1. International partnerships - Shining light on the neglected zoonoses
Elizabeth Cook1,2, Lian Thomas1,2, Will de Glanville1,2, Mark Bronsvoort1, Phil Toye2, Bernard Agwanda3, Njeri Wamae4, Sam Kariuki4 and Eric Fèvre2,5
1 University of Edinburgh, 2 International Livestock Research Institute, 3 National Museums of Kenya, 4 KEMRI, 5 University of Liverpool
Background
•Zoonoses are diseases that spread from animals to people e.g. bird flu and rabies
•Poor people in developing countries are the worst affected, with livestock owners and abattoir workers at particularly high risk
•The People, Animals and their Zoonoses (PAZ) project investigates zoonoses in western Kenya
Outcomes
Identify risk behaviours for
disease
Develop interventions for
prevention and control
Objectives
Determine exposure to
zoonoses in people and
animals
Methods
Sampling procedure
Questionnaire
-Demographics
-Socioeconomic status
-Health and nutrition
Study population
-416 households
-2113 people
-983 cattle
-93 pigs
-129 bats and rodents
824 hospital cases
Biological samples
Blood, faeces
738 abattoir workers
Data analysis
-Estimate percentage of
people/animals affected
(prevalence)
-Risk behaviours for
disease
-Spatial relationships
-Food borne risk
-Compare new test to
“gold standard”
Sample analysis
-Blood and intestinal
parasites
-Milk fever (brucellosis)
-Pig tapeworm
(cysticercosis)
-Sleeping sickness
(trypanosomiasis)
-Rift Valley Fever
-Q fever
Land cover mapping
Partners and roles
COORDINATING PARTNERS
•University of Edinburgh
•International Livestock Research
Institute
•Kenya Medical Research Institute
•Department of Veterinary
Services Kenya
DATA ANALYSIS
PARTNERS
•Uni of Wisconsin
•Uni of Southampton
•Uni of Liverpool
DIAGNOSTIC PARTNERS
•Friedrich Loeffler Institute, Germany
•University of Florida
•Universidad de Navarra, Spain
•Children’s Hospital Oakland Research Institute
•Association for Strengthening Agricultural
Research in East and Central Africa
•Institute of Tropical Medicine, Belgium
SAMPLING PARTNERS
•National Museums of Kenya
•University of Nairobi
•Makerere University,
Uganda
POLICY PARTNERS
•Zoonotic Disease Unit
FUNDING
Wellcome Trust, Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, MRC, Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research
Outcomes
Key Results
Significance
Brucellosis data
Used in national control policy
Cysticercosis data
Develop new diagnostic test (Fig A)
Trypanosomiasis
Atlas of human African trypanosomiasis
Rift Valley Fever
First time identified in this area
New bat parasite
First time identified (Fig B)
Abattoir standards
Contribution to national standards
A
Additional benefits resulting from project
•BIOBANK – 25,000 samples stored for future
projects
•Capacity building – 13 national and 12 international
undergraduate and graduate students
•Treatment provided to 3000+ participants
B
•Some diagnostic tests validated in African setting for
first time
•Collaboration with WHO to develop global
eradication programme for cysticercosis
Conclusion
•Holistic approach to zoonotic disease investigation – first project to study animals and people concurrently
•Multidiscipline cross cultural team allows integrated approach to understanding zoonoses in this setting
•Outcomes of this project will allow development of evidence driven interventions for the prevention and control of zoonoses