Workshop on Vaccine and Diagnostic Technology Development (WP4)
As one of the WP4 tasks, the LinkTADs WP4 2ndWorkshop on Vaccine and Diagnostic Technology Development on Transboundary Animal Diseases and Zoonoses jointly organized by the Food and Agriculture Organisation and both the Harbin and Shanghai Veterinary Research Institutes (FAO, HVRI and SHVRI ) was held in Shanghai on October 17, 2014. The main objective of the workshop was to strengthen the collaboration among partners on diagnostic technologies and vaccine development in the EU and China, with special emphasis on the linkage between epidemiology and laboratory research in the prevention and control of important animal diseases and zoonoses for both the EU and China. 45 participants including scientists, experts and students from 19 institutions from China and Europe attended the one-day workshop. The workshop containeda balanced combination of presentations conducted in both the EU and China. Highlights of the meeting included:
- Sequencing vector-borne viruses, coronaviruses and novel bat viruses to provide information about their origin, evolution, vaccine development, etc.
- The challenges of brucellosis diagnosis, how to choose the best laboratory diagnostic strategy, and tools for different scenarios.
- Developing a recombinant reverse genetic vaccine for rabies control in China, where rabies is a re-emerging problem.
- Update on the current epidemiological surveys for bovine tuberculosis.
- How ecological and epidemiological methods for investigations on animal diseases can be integrated.
- Ongoing efforts to produce an effective and safe vaccine against African swine fever virus (ASFV).
- The challenges that China may face regarding the prevention, detection and response process to African swine fever and the need to be alert and prepared.
- the enhanced pathogenicity of a new pseudorabies virus emerging in China and the promising results of a newly developed gene-deleted vaccine
- An overview of the different PRRS diagnostic technologies available and when to use each of them.
- The use of viral metagenomics in the identification of diarrhea of unknown cause in pigs in China.
- Two laboratory tools developed by FAO to aid laboratories: the laboratory mapping tool and the genetic module
The agenda for the meeting can be found attached below.
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