A group of researchers in ENOVAT just published a work that benchmarks the different antimicrobial therapeutic approaches for mastitis in different EU countries
The aim of this study was to evaluate and compare the different therapeutic approaches and to highlight commonalities and differences between countries European countries. This work compared eight different countries: Spain, The Netherlands, Estonia, Ireland, Poland, Finland, Germany, and Italy. In these countries, the decision to start treatment is usually made by veterinarians,while the farm personnel is responsible for treatment …
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Meet our leaders #12
Dr. Luís Pedro Carmo WG4 vice-leader Post-doc at the Veterinary Public Health Institute, Vetsuisse, University of Bern, Switzerland “Evidence should be the guiding line to the selection of the most adequate treatments” Dr. Carmo was a Doctoral student / Resident of the European College of Veterinary Public Health Veterinary Public Health Institute, University of Bern, Switzerland. Among other relevant professional …
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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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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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Driving laboratory standardisation of bacterial culture and antimicrobial susceptibility testing in veterinary clinical microbiology in Europe and beyond
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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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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