Workshop : Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD): current knowledge and european perspective - 2006
October 3, 2006
- INTRODUCTION:
- SESSION I: Chronic Wasting Disease in North America: Current knowledge
- SESSION II: CWD- Situation in Europe
- ORGANIZERS:
- Coordinator:
Updated : September 07, 2006
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When : Tuesday 3rd October 2006, 11.00 - 18.30
Where : Berlino Room, Lingotto Congress Centre - Via Nizza 280 - Torino
INTRODUCTION:
- Transmissible spongiform encephalopathies in cervids: past, present and future.
11.00-11.10.
Dr Dolores Gavier-Widén
National Veterinary Institute (SVA)
Uppsala, Sweden
SESSION I: Chronic Wasting Disease in North America: Current knowledge
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- 11.10-12.00. Overview of CWD: Review of the epidemiology, surveillance and control. Ongoing research projects
Dr Mike Miller
Wildlife Health Program
Colorado Division of Wildlife
Wildlife Research Center
Fort Collins, Colorado 80526-2097, USA
- 12.00-12.50. Pathological lesions associated with Chronic Wasting Disease
Dr Terry Spraker
Colorado State University Diagnostic Laboratories
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
- 13.00-14.00 Lunch
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- 14.00-14.20. Clinical signs and antemortem diagnosis of chronic wasting disease
Dr Lisa Wolfe
Colorado Division of Wildlife
Wildlife Research Center
Fort Collins, Colorado 80526-2097, USA
- 14.20-14.40. Species specific influences of genotype on CWD susceptibility
Dr Katherine ORourke
Animal Disease Research Unit,
Agricultural Research Service, USDA, USA
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- 14.40-15.10. CWD: Review of the diagnostics for CWD. Current situation and ongoing projects in Canada.
Dr Aru Balachandran
National Reference Laboratory for Scrapie and CWD
Animal Diseases Research Institute
Canadian Food Inspection Agency
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
SESSION II: CWD- Situation in Europe
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- 15.10-15.30. Discrimination between CWD, BSE and scrapie by molecular profiling
Dr Mick Stack
Veterinary Laboratory Agency, UK.
- 15.30-15.50. Efficient transmission and characterization of CWD in bank voles
Dr. Umberto Agrimi
Istituto Superiore di Sanitá, Rome, Italy
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- 15.50-16.20: break
- 16.20-16.40. Phenotypes of PrPCWD accumulation in cervids: the sheep experience
Dr Lorenzo González
Veterinary Laboratories Agency, VLA
Lasswade, UK
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- 16.40-17.00. Rapid and discriminatory diagnosis of TSEs in lymph nodes
Dr Jan Langeveld
CIDC, Lelystad, Netherlands
- 17.00-17.20. The EU-wide survey for Chronic Wasting Disease in European cervids: design of the survey, objectives and implementation
Dr Koen Van Dyck and Dr Sinéad Diederich
TSE Section
DG SANCO, Brussels, Belgium
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- 17.20-17.40. Application of a TSE surveillance program in Germany. Design of the program, difficulties and practicalities. Recommendations to the rest of Europe. Comparison of different prion testing systems. Final results.
Dr Kai Frölich and Tina Blasche
Institute for Zoo-and Wildlife Research, Berlin.
- 17.40-18.00. TSE surveillance of deer in the UK
Paul Webb
Veterinary Laboratory Agency, UK.
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- 18.00-18.20. Results of the European proficiency testing for the diagnosis of CWD
Sylvie Benestad
National Veterinary Institute, Oslo, Norway
Dolores Gavier-Widén
National Veterinary Institute, Uppsala, Sweden
- 18.20-18.25. Genetic variability and selection of the Cervus elaphus prion (PrP) gene
Matteo Perucchini
Institute for Animal Health, Edinburgh, Scotland
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ORGANIZERS:
- NEUROPRION-Cervids Group
- European Wildlife Disease Association
- CERMAS (Centro di Referenza Nazionale Malattie Animali Selvatici) CERMAS belongs to Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle dAosta
- CEA (Centro di Referenza Nazionale per le Encefalopatie Animali) Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale del Piemonte, Liguria e Valle dAosta Turin
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Coordinator:
- Dolores Gavier-Widen
Department of Wildlife Diseases, National
Veterinary Institute (SVA), S-75189 Uppsala, Sweden,
E-mail: dolores@sva.se
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