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Title: ETPGAH UK Mirror Group


1
ETPGAH UK Mirror Group
  • Progress report

Phil Sketchley - Chief Executive National Office
of Animal Health Ltd
2
UK Mirror Group
  • Structure and functioning (stakeholders, chair,
    secretariat, meetings, etc.)
  • Action plan and selection of priorities
  • Communication at national level
  • Directing national funding
  • Work programme for 2008

3
Structure of UK Mirror Group
  • Secretariat VMD (Veterinary Medicines
    Directorate)
  • Professor Steve Dean Chief Executive
  • Dr Jack Kay VMD-RD and Science Policy Manager
  • Gemma Adams secretary
  • Chair Phil Sketchley - NOAH National Office of
    Animal Health representing UK animal medicines
    industry.
  • Current stakeholders
  • Professor Quintin McKellar - Dean RVC- Royal Vet
    College
  • Professor Julie FitzPatrick - Chief Executive,
    Moredun Research Institute.
  • Dr John Preston MRCVS VMD Board.
  • Catherine McLaughlin Animal Health and Welfare,
    National Farmers Union,
  • Dr Alex Morrow Defra Animal Health and Welfare
    and Eurogap.
  • Professor Jim Scudamore Liverpool Vet School
    ETPGAH consultant.
  • Invitation to CVO (vacant)

4
Progress of UK Mirror Group
  • 2 meetings held so far hosted by Defra
  • July 2007 and Jan 2008
  • Key Actions _at_ first meeting
  • ESTABLISHING GAPS in Research
  • To assist in developing a common priority list,
    it was agreed each member would submit details of
    their perceived priorities
  • 7 most important exotic diseases
  • 7 most important endemic diseases
  • 7 most important zoonotic diseases
  • 7 most important products for treatment
  • 7 most important areas for further research

5
Exotic Diseases Priorities
Disease UK groups with
expertise
  • Veterinary Laboratories Agency
  • Institute for Animal Health, Compton Centre for
    Infections,
  • Health Protection Agency
  • Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright
  • Institute for Animal Health, Pirbright
  • Veterinary Laboratories Agency
  • Scottish Agricultural College
  • Avian influenza
  • Foot and Mouth
  • Blue tongue disease
  • Newcastle disease

6
Endemic Diseases Priorities
Disease UK groups with
expertise
  • Mastitis (multi-agent)
  • Tuberculosis (and diagnostic tuberculins)
  • Parasitic gastroenteritis
  • Lameness
  • University of Bristol
  • Veterinary Laboratories Agency, Moredun,
  • AFBI Stormont,
  • Imperial College
  • Institute for Animal Health, Compton
  • Moredun Research Institute
  • University of Bristol
  • Royal Veterinary College
  • University of Liverpool
  • Scottish Agricultural College
  • University of Bristol

7
Zoonotic Disease Priorities
Disease UK groups with
expertise
  • Veterinary Laboratories Agency
  • Health Protection Agency
  • University of Edinburgh
  • Imperial College
  • Veterinary Laboratories Agency,
  • Institute for Animal Health, Compton
  • University of Bristol
  • University of Cambridge
  • University of Nottingham University of Oxford
  • Veterinary Laboratories Agency,
  • Institute for Animal Health, Compton
  • Institute of Food Research, Norwich
  • University of Bristol
  • University of Cambridge
  • University of Nottingham
  • Veterinary Laboratories Agency
  • VTEC 0157
  • Campylobacter
  • Salmonella
  • Antimicrobial resistance

8
Summary
9
Others?
  • Toxoplasmosis
  • Sheep scab
  • African Swine Fever
  • Bovine viral diarrhoea
  • Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome
  • Tick-borne diseases
  • Necrotic enteritis
  • Infectious bronchitis
  • Gumboro Mareks
  • Brachyspira
  • Neospora
  • West Nile Fever
  • Echinococcus multilocularis
  • Classical swine fever
  • African Horse Sickness
  • Leishmaniasis (via PETS)
  • Heartworm (dirofilaria immitis)
  • Fascioloiasis
  • Anthrax
  • Cryptosporidiosis
  • Toxoplasmosis
  • Leptospirosis

10
ANNEX ADDITIONAL DISEASES AND ISSUES OF
IMPORTANCE TO UK TO BE KEPT UNDER REVIEW
  • Cat Flu (emerging virulent strains and novel
    approaches to control)
  • Borders disease
  • Strangles
  • Feline Immunodeficiency Virus
  • Mycoplasma
  • Feline Infectious Peritonitis
  • Myxomatosis
  • Angiostrongylus vasorum
  • E. Cuniculli
  • Pasterellosis (rabbits)
  • Rabies
  • Nosema ceranae infestation
  • Equine protozoal myeloencephalitis
  • Porcine Multisystemic Wasting disease (PMWS) pigs
  • Transmissable Spongiform Encephalopathies
  • Caseous Lymphadenitis (sheep)
  • Clostridium botulinum

11
ANNEX ADDITIONAL DISEASES AND ISSUES OF
IMPORTANCE TO UK TO BE KEPT UNDER REVIEW
  • Infectious pancreatic disease (IPN) salmon
  • Bovine abortion
  • Bovine respiratory disease
  • Swine respiratory disease
  • Poultry coccidiosis/ colisepticaemia
  • Varroa destructor infestation
  • Digitial Dermatitis
  • Neopspora vaccine
  • Anthelmintic resistance (sheep mainly)
  • Caseous Lymphadenitis (sheep)
  • RabiesOrf/ringworm
  • Listeriosis
  • Lyme Borreliosis
  • Blackhead (turkeys)
  • Bee products Small Hive Beetle, etc.
  • Anticancer medicines for companion animals
  • Antibiotic to treat nosema (both apis and ceranae
    forms)
  • Fish infectious diseases and issues (e.g. ERM,
    PKD, sea lice)

12
ANNEX ADDITIONAL DISEASES AND ISSUES OF
IMPORTANCE TO UK TO BE KEPT UNDER REVIEW
  • Anthelmintics (new mode of action chemical family
    and vaccines)
  • Alternatives to animal challenge tests for
    vaccines
  • DIVA vaccines
  • Risk based methodology for re-testing veterinary
    vaccines
  • DNA vaccines
  • Coccidiosis
  • Chlamydiosis
  • Equine viruses
  • Brucellosis
  • Ruminant respiratory viruses
  • TSEs

13
Centres of expertise for collaboration with UK
Mirror Group-summary
  • Institute for Animal Health (Pirbright) - FMD,
    Bluetongue
  • Institute for Animal Health (Compton) -
    Salmonella, Campylobacter, Mareks Disease,
    Coccidiosis
  • VLA (veterinary Laboratories Agency) - TB,
    Rabies, AI
  • Moredun - Parasitic gastroenteritis,
    Chlamydiosis, ParaTB
  • University of Bristol - Campylobacter, Salmonella
  • University of Cambridge - Salmonella,
    Campylobacter
  • RVC - influenza (epi), Lameness, Antimicrobial
    resistance.
  • AHT (Animal Health Trust) - equine viruses
  • Stormont - Brucellosis, ruminant respiratory
    viruses

14
Communication at national level
  • So far just within immediate group
  • Now we intend to embrace a larger audience of
    research establishments

15
Directing national funding
  • No specific actions initiated yet.
  • This will be addressed at our next meeting in
    April
  • Also to determine a detailed work programme after
    identifying collaboration with other national
    mirror groups

16
ETPGAH
UK Mirror Group
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