Educational workshop on emerging laboratory and PoC technologies for detection of AMR and bacterial infection in veterinary medicine
ESCMID is organizing a one-day online educational workshop on March 9 2022 that we have arranged on Emerging laboratory and point-of-care technologies for detection of AMR and bacterial infection in veterinary medicine. We have some excellent presenters and believe that this course will be beneficial to you. More information on the course program can be found in the online flyer. …
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ITC Conference Grants
INCLUSIVENESS TARGET COUNTRIES (ITC) CONFERENCE GRANTS AVAILABLE There is now the possibility to apply for ITC conference grants if you are an investigator/innovator < 40 years old and from an Inclusiveness Target Country or Near Neighbour Country. You must present your own work as an oral or poster presentation, and the work should be related to the topic of ENOVAT …
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New publications are available on our webpage
Please check them here. The last publication was led by Professor Ludovic Pelligand on a prospective clinical trial in normal and critically ill dogs to evaluate the pharmacokinetics (PK) of intravenous amoxicillin combined with clavulanic acid. The authors checked a total of 218 amoxicillin concentrations (AMC) in plasma for healthy and sick dogs and found that the PK of AMC …
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Working Group 1 update
ENOVAT WG1 is announcing the launch of the Antimicrobial Use Guidelines Survey which is building on the findings of the WG1’s Treatment Guidelines pilot survey. The current version is a small-animal focused survey and is hoped that it will provide an insight into how antimicrobial use guidelines are viewed by companion animal vets across Europe. This information will enable any …
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Which bacterial species/genera do you still have problems identifying with MALDI TOF MS technology?
We are looking for your inputs! In the framework of the COST Action ENOVAT we are working on the optimisation of MALDI TOF MS methods for bacteria that are difficult to identify using this method. We would therefore like to ask you which bacterial species/genera you still have problems identifying with MALDI TOF MS technology and for which you are …
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Letter from the Chair
Dear All, I hope everyone is safe and sound considering the increasing number of COVID-19 cases almost everywhere. This newsletter contains various updates from ENOVAT, including from four of the working groups. We are now halfway through ENOVAT (believe it or not!), and we are doing pretty well in terms of attaining the goals we set. A few deliverables have …
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WGs updates
Working Group 1 Work in WG1 continues on both the diagnostic procedures and treatment guidelines surveys. The Diagnostic procedures survey which aims to review and evaluate the methodology and interpretive criteria used by veterinary diagnostic laboratories across Europe for pathogen identification and antimicrobial susceptibility testing, is now completed. The survey was taken by 290 respondents (veterinary microbiology laboratories) from 35 …
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An ENOVAT member is interviewed about the antimicrobial resistance issue in companion animals
Dr. Menezes pointed out that PETS CAN PASS GENES FOR ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE TO HUMAN INFECTIONS “I am a PhD student at the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine of the University of Lisbon. I do my research at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Animal Health under the Supervision of Professor Constança Pomba, the head of the Antibiotic Resistance Lab. The Idea …
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Meet our leaders #11
Prof. Paul Nguewa STSM Coordinator Head of the Institute of Tropical Health University of Navarra, Spain “One Health strategy remains a global approach against health threats in the animal, human and environment interface“ Prof. Paul Nguewa, STSM Coordinator, Head of the Institute of Tropical Health (University of Navarra-Spain; ISTUN; www.istun.es), Department of Microbiology and Parasitology. Leader of a group of …
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ENOVAT releases some videos to explain what the network is
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Videos are posted on different social media, including Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Youtube The first video shows in a very simple way what the problem of antimicrobial resistance is, and how ENOVAT is trying to solve it. The second video shows how members explain what both the problem and the network is. This video was recorded during the last face-to-face …
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