Over 180 international scientific experts will meet for the next three days near Lucca, Italy, to discuss state-of-the-art advances in infectious diseases transmitted from animals to man, known as zoonoses.
The conference, at Il Ciocco Conference Centre, Lucca, Italy, is organized by Med-Vet-Net, the European Network of Excellence for zoonoses research and will be attended by over 180 scientists from 17 countries worldwide. This conference will provide the opportunity for specialists in food-borne disease from both a clinical and a veterinary background to exchange and share ideas as well as research methodologies that will enable greater cohesiveness and collaboration in the prevention and control of these diseases worldwide.
“The complexity of this public health mission is very high,” says Med-Vet-Net Governing Board Chair, Dr Valérie Baduel. “First, it requires competences to analyse and assess the different risk factors and, second, the ability to design and produce suitable tools for prevention, earliest detection and control. The multidisciplinary approach provided by Med-Vet-Net and the quality of these works is crucial because they underlie the choice and the efficiency of disease management options.”
The topics selected for this meeting focus on aspects of zoonoses related to epidemiology, risk research, detection and control, host–microbe interactions, microbial ecology as well as new and emerging zoonoses. Sixty-seven oral presentations and over 125 posters will be presented covering a wide range of pathogens including Salmonella, E. coli, MRSA, Cryptosporidium and Hepatitis E,