Deliverable 4 European strain database The first objective of WG2 was to establish a database with information on veterinary pathogens stored across European laboratories. In March 2022, the European strain database included more than 26,000 data entries from 24 countries. Apart from those bacteria representing important diseases and accounting for high antimicrobial use, pathogens that are traditionally difficult to identify …
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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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Dorina Timofte, et al. on behalf of ENOVAT, ESGVM, ECVM and EAVLD. Journal of Clinical Microbiology Dec 2020, JCM.02572-20; DOI: 10.1128/JCM.02572-20
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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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