The UNU/BIOLAC network for infectious cattle diseases.
From 13 to 25 of November 2017 the “Instituto de Investigación en Salud Pública y Zoonosis” of the Universidad Central del Ecuador, organized the Theoretical/practical course on the diagnosis and epidemiology of emerging and re-emerging bacterial and parasitic diseases of cattle.
The course was financed by the BIOLAC program of the United Nations University (http://biolac-unu.net/)
The course focused on the diagnosis and control of emerging and re-emerging bacterial and parasites diseases of cattle: Bovine Tuberculosis, Paratuberculosis, Leptospirosis, Brucellosis, Leucosis, Neosporosis, Anaplasmosis, Babesiosis, and Trypanosomiasis.
Veterinarians and other personnel working on animal health, as well as investigators working in the diagnosis and control of these diseases in Latin-American and the Caribbean and coming from 11 countries participated in the course.
Four cattle herds form two different regions of Ecuador were screened for zoonotic or production limiting diseases. Different techniques were used for the diagnosis: Agglutination tests, ELISAs, and molecular biology techniques. In addition, personnel and dogs of the cattle farms were screened for the diseases. The diagnostic results of this course will be published in scientific journals.
The course also resulted in the formation of a scientific network in which the majority of the participants will take part (see below). The network was created to initiate future research projects between its members. The network also serves for recognizing its members in future publications. We consider that the publications as a result of this course should bear the names of all the participants, as all participants actively were involved in the course program. However, for practical reasons the list of authors would be too long for a scientific journal.
Future publications for this reason will mention only the names of the course lecturers and professors but with an extension: “on behalf of the UNU/BIOLAC network for infectious cattle diseases”, with a link to this webpage. For the same reason we consider that every person mentioned on this web page can use the publications with this extension for his or her curriculum.
Members of the UNU/BIOLAC Network
COORDINATOR:
Jacobus De Waard Universidad Central de Venezuela (UCV)
LECTURES AND PROFESSORS:
Gustavo Echeverría Universidad Central del Ecuador (CIZ-UCE)
Elizabeth Minda Universidad Central del Ecuador (CIZ-UCE)
Maritza Celi Universidad Central del Ecuador (CIZ-UCE)
Lizbeth Olmedo Universidad Central del Ecuador (CIZ-UCE)
Heracles García Universidad Central de Venezuela/University of São Paulo
Armando Reyna Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas (ESPE)
PARTICIPANTS:
Omar Andrade Universidad de Cuenca (Ecuador)
Hernán Calderón Centro de Diagnóstico Clínico y Veterinario ANIMALAB (Ecuador)
Uziel Durán Dirección General de Ganadería (República Dominicana)
Marcela Eraso Universidad de Antoquia (Colombia)
Jorge Espinoza Agrocalidad (Ecuador)
Mercy Falconi Agrocalidad (Ecuador)
Miguel Ángel García Escuela Politécnica del Litoral (Ecuador)
Andrés Gil Laboratorio de Microbiología Barranquilla (Colombia)
Gabriela Hernández SENASA (Costa Rica)
Luis Hidalgo INSPI (Ecuador)
Milton Isaula Servicio Nacional de Sanidad e Inocuidad Agroalimentaria (Honduras)
Johanna Juliao Ministerio de Desarrollo Agropecuario (Panamá)
Jimmy Jumbo Universidad de as Fuerzas Armadas-ESPE (Ecuador)
Lorena Lagrave SENACSA (Paraguay)
Jhuliana Luna Universidad Nacional de Loja (Ecuador)
María Jimena Marfil Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (Argentina)
Katerin Martínez Ministerio de Agricultura y Ganadería (El Salvador)
Luis Mena Agrocalidad (Ecuador)
Yrneh Prado Instituto de Biomedicina de Venezuela (Venezuela)
Mauricio Salas Universidad Politécnica Salesiana-Sede Cuenca (Ecuador)
Patricio Sandoval Agrocalidad (Ecuador)
Luis Serrano Ministerio de Agricultura, Ganadería y Alimentación (Guatemala)
Jessica Valseca Particular (Ecuador)
Leandro Vargas CONALECHE (República Dominicana)
Martín Zumarraga Instituto Nacional de Tecnología Agropecuaria (Argentina)
Freddy Proaño Universidad Central del Ecuador (Ecuador)
Jorge Ron Universidad de las Fuerzas Armadas (Ecuador)