Working group 3 developed a survey for identifying currently missing veterinary species-specific clinical breakpoints
Did you know that the antibiogram report on many of the commonly used veterinary drugs are based on pharmacokinetics in people? Or species different from the ones you treat? This lack of species-specific data can negatively impact the reliability of veterinary susceptibility testing and lead to sub-optimal treatment decisions. We would like to invite you to tackle this problem with …
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An ENOVAT member just launched a free-access vehicle of education and raising awareness in animal health, animal welfare, and public health protection
The ENOVAT member and President of the European College of Veterinary Microbiology, Professor John Ikonomopoulos, would like to announce the family site www.drhippocrates.com/en, which is dedicated to the friends of veterinary science. The aim of the site is to become a free-access vehicle of education and raising awareness in animal health, animal welfare, and public health protection. Video presentations on …
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Diagnostic procedures and Strain database surveys
WG1 and WG2 have been working in several surveys that kindly ask you to respond as well as disseminate as you can (click on the links to respond) ENOVAT WG1-Diagnostic procedures survey. The Diagnostic Procedures Survey – is designed to get an insight into methodology and standards used by veterinary microbiological laboratories across Europe. If you want to take part …
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Meet our leaders #8
Dr. ANNET HEUVELINK WG2 vice leader Senior Scientist Microbiology, R&D, Royal GD, Deventer, the Netherlands “Like bacteria cross borders, we have to cross borders, to both harmonize laboratory methods and treatment guidelines, and equally important, to implement these, together, across borders” Annet studied Food Microbiology at Wageningen University, the Netherlands. In 2000, she successfully defended her PhD-thesis entitled “Verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia …
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ENOVAT is supporting and promoting two special issues in the Antibiotics journal
ENOVAT is supporting and promoting the submission of ENOVAT-related research findings in these two special issues where some of our members are editors: Special Issue “Optimization of Veterinary Antimicrobial Treatment in Companion and Food Animals“ This Special Issue invites researchers interested in antimicrobial resistance monitoring in animals, to optimize veterinary antimicrobial use with special emphasis to help in the …
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Meet our leaders #7
Ms Chantal BRITT Working Group 5 Leader Communications Officer at Swiss 3R Competence Centre, Switzerland “A dedicated one health approach and an effective communication strategy to disseminate relevant information to all stakeholders are key to impacting veterinary antimicrobial prescription behaviour, tackling resistance and protecting our health in the years to come.” After graduation from the University of Geneva (MA in …
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Working groups update: December 2020
Recent activities and progress of the different WGs in ENOVAT: Overview of ongoing work (Feb 2020 – Nov 2020) Working Group 1 Since the last Working Groups meeting in February in Albania, WG1 has been undertaking a wealth of work towards achieving its main two objectives: To review and evaluate the methodology and interpretive criteria used by veterinary diagnostic …
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Meet our leaders #6
Dr Lisbeth Rem JESSEN WG4 leader Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen, Denmark “The prescribers of antimicrobials are key figures in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. We strive to create rational antimicrobial use guidelines that are meaningful and immediately useful to practitioners in the field. If successful the impact may be huge” Lisbeth graduated in 1997 from the University of …
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Meet our leaders #5
Prof Petra Picò CAGNARDI WG3 leader Associate Professor, University of Milan, Italy “The integration of pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic data is crucial to define veterinary clinical breakpoints for optimization of antimicrobial treatment and limitation of antimicrobial resistance” Dr. Cagnardi is Associate Professor of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology by the Dept. of Veterinary Medicine at the University of Milan (Università degli Studi …
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ENOVAT ITC conference grants results
Posters presented in the granted conferences Dr. Puvaca presented this poster in the 10th World Congress on Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases hold in Budapest (Hungary) on the last November 16-17, 2020. Nikola Puvača has Ph.D. degree in Biotechnology, eg. Animal Sciences (2016). Currently he is a Research Associate, Associate Professor in the Department of Engineering Management in Biotechnology, and …
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